Re: [Evolution] Places where Evolution stores its data

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 20:25 +0200, Tom wrote:
> I've just happened to take a look at the places for Evolution mail
> and I
> don't know what I shall think of it. What I see there is OK in your
> opinion - or more simply: Has anybody seen something similar before?

Similar to what?  Nothing Evolution done is particularly unique; and it
is a private data application store... so it is ONLY a concern for the
application.  Stay out of there.

> I wouldn't like to format the mail - hope you nevertheless see the
> runaway. It is 10 IMAP accounts and 1 NNTP account, that seems to 
> store
> meta data and cache on at least
> thomas ga-78:~/.local/share/evolution/mail/1420635858 9770 2 ga-78$ 
> find
> > wc -l
> 23737 newsgroups. I'm subscribed to 5 (FIVE) of them. Did Evolution
> store the whole server ?

Depends on what options are selected.

> What is your opinion on that ?

If you want to index or SPAM score, etc... you need the entire message,
so the entire message is downloaded.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
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