Re: [Evolution] Trash and Compose wierdness !? -[SOLVED -- I hope]

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:19 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Rob;
>
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:00 -0400, Robert Seward wrote:
> > Hello William,
>
> > William, in your case you might be able to use mutt (or something
> > similar) to strategically delete the persistent e-mail that can't be
> > expunged.
> >
> > Best of luck,
> > Rob 
> I should of thought of using mutt to expunge.  I found a slightly
> different solution this time, but I will try mutt if it ever happens
> again.  
>
> I should of thought of it, because every few months I prune my saved
> folder by moving posts I want to keep into an Evo archive file, copy the
> archive to a text file in a completely separate directory, empty the Evo
> archive and use mutt to view the archive.txt when I need to.  

I suspect this sort of problem arises when the local mbox file for Inbox
gets close to 2GB in size, because the internal Evo indices only handle
up to 2GB per file even though the underlying filesystem might support
much larger files (I seem to remember reports of this in the past but I
can't be bothered hunting them down :-). Not expunging your deleted
mails regularly will do that. If you use a different local format such
as Maildir, you shouldn't have this problem, but support for Maildir in
Evo seems to have stagnated.

Another reason to keep most of your mail on IMAP ...

Note that you can also get issues when there isn't enough free space on
the /tmp filesystem to allow an expunge of a huge mbox file to work
(expunging of mbox implies copying).

poc