Re: [Evolution] how delete local copies (IMAP)

[Martin Reuter <mreuter gmx de>]

OK,

I deleted the following files in
evolution/mail/imap/accountname/folders/*/
*.
*.?
*.??

restarted evolution and it works. I can see the headers and when I click
on an email it fetches it from the server again.
So far no crashes.

Cheers

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 16:05 -0400, Martin Reuter wrote:
> the cache folder is very small. The problem is the folders
> in .evolution/mail/imap
> for each account.
> Do you mean to delete those folders? 
> I'd like to keep my account settings and only purge the local email
> copies, and have it download headers again.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 15:22 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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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