Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

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On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:09 +0530, Bharath C J wrote:
> Thanks everyone for suggestions. I was able to split huge Mbox file
> (close 8.5 GB) using gvim...split into 8 smaller files. I took almost
> 8 hours to do it because of my machine speed. I only hope I have not
> lost any mails.

Glad it worked out for you. It was slow because gvim had to read the
entire file into virtual memory in order to work on it. An inline filter
would have been much faster (sed, awk, perl, ...).

> Perhaps it would be great if you guys make something like "Mbox
> reaching limit" notification. This will help lot of users... 32 bit
> machines. As soon as we see this notification, we can move mails to
> different folders from within Evo.

Not only with 32-bit machines. AFAIK the 2GB limitation also applies
even with 64-bit versions of Evo.

poc