Re: [Evolution] "Storing Folder" stalling Evolution

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Samstag, den 18.06.2011, 21:49 -0400 schrieb jim:
> > > > I am using 2.32.2 in 64 bit Ubuntu 11.04 . My
> > > > inbox is quite large ie. 2.2 GB . Could this be a problem?
> >
> > Is this INBOX on local storage?
> Yes it is POP on local hard drive.
> > > This is POP presumably. Older versions of Evo did baulk at mbox files of
> > > over 2^31 bytes (2GB) because of the size of file pointers, but IIRC
> > > 2.32.x should no longer have this problem.
> > >
> > > You *have* expunged your deleted files, right? If you haven't, that
> > > Inbox is full of crud which you can at least clean out as a start.
> >
> >
> > Start with a clean setup of evolution with your big INBOX file separated
> > away and then try to import that file with evolutions import
> > functionality, having set up some reasonable filters which split these
> > mails into different folders.
> > Or try to split your big INBOX file into smaller junks. See, for
> > instance: http://tinyurl.com/3v9z5f.
> I tried importing into a clean install but Evo crashed in th eprocess. I
> just got brutal and cleaned a bunch of old stuff out of my Inbox to get
> below 2 GB. Maybe that 2 GB problem still exists because now things seem
> to be working smoothly. I'll see how long it lasts. Thanks again.
> Jim

Maybe the python script http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/clean_moz.txt
at
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040609231712503 will do
the job to clean up INBOX?





-- 
thomas