Re: [Evolution] total amount of memorized mails and maildir

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 15:57 +0200, Tommaso A wrote:
> Hello,
> at now I have Evolution 2.28.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 
> Recently I had this error message:
> ÂImpossibile accodare il messaggio sul file
> mbox: /home/tommaso/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File troppo
> grande(impossible to queue the message on file mbox: ... file too big)Â
> and couldn't download any more mails, also if I had a big deal of hard
> disk space.
> a)
> -There is a defined quote in KBites or nr. of messages allowed? 

Yes, MBOX is limited to 2GB.  This is well known and frequently
reported.
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522433>

> or 
> -there is some trick to go around this limit?

Yes

1.) don't use MBOX.
2.) Upgrade to an Evolution built with largefile support
3.) Use an IMAP server as your persistent mail store.

I recommend, in order, #3, #2, #1

> b)
> - Yes I can backup, but reloading a backup I also reload old settings;
> - there is some way to backup only mails and their enclosures?

Create a maildir mailbox and copy the mail to it.

> c)
> About maildir with Evolution
> -There is a tutorial or guide to set up an Evolution maildir storage on
> a USB pen-drive? 
> -and what are its amount limits?

No clue.