Re: [Evolution] Inbox too large

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 02:00 -0700, anders70 wrote:
> The 'interesting' point is, that the older emails in the top part of
> the
> Inbox had already been moved to other subfolder a long time ago,
> without
> actually beeing deleted from the Inbox file.

As has had been said many (*many* :-) times here, IMAP doesn't have a
Move operation, it only has Copy and Delete. Given that Delete means
"mark for deletion, expecting that the user will do an Expunge at some
time in the future", this explains why you still have old messages
hanging around. Note that for consistency Evo uses this mechanism even
when the folder is not on an IMAP server (Exchange may be different, I
wouldn't know).

Get used to running Folder->Expunge (Ctrl-E) or File->Empty Trash once
in a while. The former is per-folder, the latter is per-account. You can
also set a Edit->Mail Preferences option to Expunge (Empty Trash
Folders) when quitting Evo.

poc