Re: [Evolution] Archiving mail, suggestion

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:48 +0000, devel wrote:
> El dom, 15-04-2007 a las 23:03 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray escribiÃ:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:04 +0000, devel wrote:
> > > Hello, It is posible archive mail by months and years?
> > Yes, but you would have to do it manually, or using a filter. Evolution
> > is not comparable with outlook in this regard.
> >
> > On a additional note, i believe evolution seems to slow down with a
> > folder greater than 1gig in size, afaik.
>
> Manually,..., in a computer manually is not good thing, remember the
> philosophy of biggest software company:

As i said "or using filters" .

> -- If you know click you know about computers.
> Translated:
> Only the easiest win and survive.
>
> "Store" know that mail is there but not used usually. Indexes only.
My last experience with Outlook was about 3years ago, and i do remember
Outlook had this feature of archiving mails, though i never used it.

On evolution, the mails can be moved using filters, and thats about it
afaik .


> > > I think that version of evolution (2.0.2) that I use have this problems:
> > > - Virtual folders do not scan all folders, for example searching for
> > > important, or to do later classified mail.
> >
> > Odd, what is the vfolder rule being used ?
> > Under Search folder sources is "all active folders" selected ?
> >
> >
> > If this is indeed a bug, file it with centos/rhel .
>
>
> Work, this is very powerful.

I presume the problem no longer exists ?

> > > - Storage of old mail is not automatic.
> > sorry, i really did not understand this. 
>
> > > - Mail is stored in the same folder of evolution configuration, I think
> > > that mail folder should be in HOME/mail or something like this, to
> > > backup purposes.
> > stored under $HOME/.evolution/

Evolution allows you to save mail in a non-standard path ,i.e., not
~/.evolution . To use this feature create a new account which point to a
local mbox, or maildir box. I have note used this feature.

imho for unix, a user's home directory is supposed to be backed up .


> >
> My opinion:
> For backup purposes mail that have one month or more is not very usable,
> but should be archived.
> Evolution does not need to have it in memory, but can know that this
> mail is there.
> I think that a good think is store mail in folder like $HOME/my_mail,
> where Evolution store mail with automatic method. For example something
> like this:
>
> -my_mail
> --2005
> ---January
> ----First week
> ...
> --2006
> ...
> --2007
> ---January
> ----First week

Probably a job for vfolder ?

> ...
>
> Store all mail can be so hard if keep in memory, for this reason only
> indexes should be used.

Currently i have close to 1.5gig mails , all of which are part of a
vfolder or two. Evolution consumes 143megs of resident memory

And evolution-data-server, about 251megs of resident memory. 

Then again, i use 2.10.x version.

> This is my opinion.
>
> > > - Evolution seems to have problems using local copy of IMAP when IMAP
> > > server is inaccesible.
> > Right click on imap folder, and check if "Offline mode" is enabled .
> >
> > >
>
> In this version (2.0.2) if server is inaccesible I can not see the mail.
> In other way if server have a problem I can not save the local copy
> (enabled) of mail because I can not see or use it.

Offline mode downloads email, which you can read when you are
disconnected from internet .

To check this, enable offline mode and select File->Offline mode. Try
reading mails from imap folder.


ps : do not move mails out of imap folder when disconnected, evolution
to me atleast, does not synchronize this with imap server as Outlook
would. 


> > >
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