Re: [Evolution] Lots of questions

[DaffyDuke <daffyduke altern org>]

Hello,

Le lundi 08 mai 2006 à 10:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit :

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> Note that you can keep your Drafts folder on the IMAP server
> (Edit->Preferences>->Mail Accounts-><account>->Defaults). I do this so I
> can work on a draft from more than one location.

I already have this parameter but evolution need to write a lock while
reading any mail.

> What's probably affecting you is running out of Inodes rather than
> running out of space (though space is also low). Since Evo caches

Yes, it's an inode problem, cf my df commands this morning.

> headers of every message in every folder you subscribe to, it needs to
> be able to create local files even if it's not reading the message
> bodies. Even a moderately large folder could easily use up the 224
> inodes you have left. All you can do is turn off the message preview
> pane (View->Message Preview or Ctrl-M) which will prevent fetching
> bodies until you explicitly open a message, and/or unsubscribe any
> folders you don't really need.

Ptouh ! Very strange. Thunderbird doesn't proceed like that ?

> Your other options are (in order of preference):
>
> 1) Get a bigger disk; 1.2G is *so* 1990's :-)

Lol ! Why not, but the most interest of IMAP is to not store mail
locally. 

> 2) Move .evolution to another existing local filesystem with more space
> and leave a symbolic link in your home directory.

I already did that. For now, there are not enough inodes ....

> 3) Dump the /home filesystem to a backup medium, mkfs /home with more
> inodes, and restore. I would guess you have a lot of small files so the
> default number of inodes is probably not enough. See mkfs(8).

Hum ! Intersting .

> 4) Dump /home as before and mkfs /home with a filesystem that assigns
> inodes on demand, such as ReiserFS.

OK

> However 3 and 4 are only palliatives. If you use Evo seriously you are
> definitely going to run into this problem again.

Yes, but i would be glad evo run without fetching headers and read them
when needed only :-(

Thanks a lot , I'll try another filesystem (ext3 now).

And what about other questions, any idea ?


Daffy,

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