Re: [Tracker] Time for a new release 0.6.5?

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 20:49 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 08:43 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > - My patch on bug ï503376.
> >
> > its not quite right - for emails you can simply delete the db files
> > (email.*) which would be a lot faster and simpler
> Jamie, I do not think this is right.
>
> If user have Evolution and Thunderbird (even KMail, which seems
> obsoluated), this will delete all mail record.
> >

possibly - most will have only one email system. If we can determine
thats the case then deleting the email files would be ok

the problem with deleting emails one by one is they do not recover the
disk space and the index becomes stuffed full of duds

jamie