Re: [Evolution] Trash and Compose wierdness !? -[Just for Discussion]

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi Patrick;
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:18 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:19 -0400, William Case wrote:

> 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).

The problem with that diagnosis is that I don't have or keep anywhere
near that number of emails.  At the very most, I might have 3,000 emails
in Inbox at any one time.  Of those, I delete and expunge about 1,000
every week, rotating them depending on the age of the thread.  I might
save to 'Saved' folder 100 of the 3,000.  Every 3 -4 months I archive
those 300 - 400 right out of Evolution.

I don't think those numbers would ever approach 2GB.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1