On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 13:45 -0400, Martin Reuter wrote:
I use IMAP with evolution and need to free local disk space ( .evolution is getting too large). So I'd like to keep the server copies, just delete local copies of older emails. It's OK to keep the header locally, but not the full body or even attachments. How can that be done?
Yes, I believe that is what happens by default unless you've checked to cache messages locally. Of course messages may get cached if you actually view them.
I use version 2.12.3 and don't think I can update easily (network setup at work).
Yikes, that is antique. But I recall doing this previously. Just make sure evolution is actually stopped [no evolution processes running] and delete the contents of the cache folder. That is how I did it in the past, and Evolution just reconstituted the folder with what it needed when I started it next time. Note that this is a you-break-it-you-buy-it kind of thing to do; if it doesn't work it is *NOT* *NOT* *NOT* a flaw in Evolution. Playing around underneath your applications is *BAD*. The correct way would just be to delete the IMAP account, restart Evolution, and re-add the IMAP account.
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