Re: [evolution-patches] [IMAP][Mailer] Headers Fetching

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:44 -0400, Edward Rudd wrote:
> P Sankar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As per a discussion with Fejj, I came to know that Evo will work faster
> > for IMAP accounts if we get only a minimalistic subset of HEADER fields
> > instead of getting full HEADERS. The attached patch does that.  Things
> > seem to be working faster because of this. This could be further
> > improved if we find out someway of restricting the mailing-list headers
> > too.
> 
> 
> Hopefully this will work toward fixing the ridiculous amount of local
> disk cache that is used in Evolution 2.6.  Currently I can not use
> Evolution 2.6 (previously using 2.2) as it tried to take up > 800MB of
> local disk space with all the individual header files (and that was
> after scanning only a small portion of my 3+GB of e-mail on my IMAP
> server).  What ever happened to using a single index file with all the
> headers?  That would be a much more efficient way of storing the local
> cache so it doesn't wast disk space due to inode cluster sizes.

this patch won't fix that.

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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