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

[Tommaso A <mb4n4is8 alice it>]

Thanks to Adam Tauno Willians,
for so many answers,
but I did not explicitly choose MBOX,
appearently the only related program is
libgnumail-java 1.1.2-4.
As I said it must be a dependency I didn't chose myself.
Searching deeper I found libcamel1.2-14(2.28.3.1-0ubuntu6)
so what is missing or discardable?
Is my question rigthly posed?

Il giorno lun, 25/04/2011 alle 10.25 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams ha
scritto:
> 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.
>
>
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