Re: [Evolution] defining multiple mbox accounts with evolution

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Pete Biggs a écrit :
> Please, always say what version of Evolution you are using.

3.22.6, which is the latest for the current release of my distro.
I didn't think of mentioning since I thought I was asking a basic question.
> On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 11:16 -0500, andré via evolution-list wrote:
> > I would like to define multiple mbox folders, if it is possible, but
> > don't see how.
>
> Are they all in a single directory?  If so use an account of type
> "Standard Unix mbox spool directory". It will pick up each mbox file as
> a mail folder.
No, hundreds.  See below.

> > The reason I want to use mbox format is because I receive a lot of
> > (mostly list) emails,
> > and I don't want to add another 50000+ files to my system.
>
> 50k files is nothing. Why do you object to having more files? (My home
> partition currently has 1.5M files in it and doesn't seem to suffer.)
>
> > I use a separate folder by category in each email account, for ease
> > of access.
>
> What do you mean by an "account"? If they are entities with their own
> email address, then you will have to configure each one separately in
> Evolution, there's no automation at that level.

No problem with automation.  Generally it is very easy to configure multiple accounts.
The question is how to configure multiple mbox files on evolution.
My attempts to do so were all suddenly aborted without explanation, so I thought the interface wasn't clear.
Normally each email address would have their own folder(s).
Otherwise what is the point of having different email addresses ?
> > That is already about 100 folders using mbox.
>
> So only about 500 mails per folder? Maildir format can cope with that
> no problem.

In fact, I may have a million emails on my system.
Many folders have over 5000 emails.  (which is still fast enough with mbox.)
By putting each email in a separate file, it takes a lot more disk space.
Also, since most emails I receive have threads which can be quite long,
it makes sense (at least to me) to put them in the same physical file.
As is done by Mozilla (seamonkey & thunderbird) and many other email agents.
I separate emails also by mailing list or other category.
e.g. bugs are filtered into a separate folder for each application or desktop.

I've looked at some documentation on the various email storage formats,
and mbox, which I use now, seems preferable.  Although I may migrate to maildir,
since otherwise evolution seems a good alternative to my current application.

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André