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

[Robert Seward <rseward bluestone-consulting com>]

Hello Patrick,

Space on /tmp is never a problem on my laptop. I have 15GB available now
and likely had a similar amount when I had my expunge problem.

I regularly do expunge my Inbox. 5-6 times a day. My expunge problem was
triggered by receiving an e-mail with a large attachment from my
mother-in-law. I know it is not fair to blame the mother in law but she
is an easy target. ;-)

The morale of the story in my opinion, is to not keep all your e-mail
for the last decade in your current Inbox.

Anyway, I hope my solution helps someone else out.

Thanks,
Rob

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:
> > 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
>
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