On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 08:53 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:40 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > > > As indicated above, you have an INBOX like a cesspool and you don't > > > > break it down into subdirectories which is really what you need to do > > > > and not allow your INBOX or any subdirectory to get that big. > > > > If we want to get serious about this problem, it wouldn't be hard for > > Evolution to see that the file size is approaching the size limit for > > the OS and split a "folder" into 2 files. The problem with manually > > splitting folders is that I don't think there is an <easy> way to search > > both of them simultaneously. Although I have to admit I haven't tried > > to do that yet, nor have I played much with vfolders... > ---- > I suppose you could bugzilla an RFE but good luck. Evolution developers > have their own agenda. > > As for searching multiple folders, if they are subfolders of your INBOX, > then any search on your INBOX would automatically include subfolders. I'll check that out. > > > > > It's a bit rude to throw around words like "cesspool" when you actually > > > mean "tower of cards" ;o) > > > > You guys underestimate the system I have running here. Evolution > > ROCKS ! > ---- > I pretty much underestimate any person who keeps thousands of e-mails in > their INBOX rather than organize their e-mail. It IS organized. How many emails would you have in your GENERAL mailbox since 2002 ? No matter how well you organize things, you'll need a general "this email doesn't fit anywhere else and can't be categorized" mailbox. Well, mine is 2GB in size, because I do a LOT of email correspondence. > I believe I have used Evolution since it's first appearance on RHL but I > stopped using POP3 a long, long time ago so I haven't had to deal with > mbox and all of it's fragility many years ago. In my mind, anyone who > does a lot of e-mail should set up a mail server with IMAP and either > cyrus-imapd or dovecot with Maildir and if necessary, use fetchmail or > equivalent to retrieve e-mail from POP3 servers as they are much more > efficient at storing, retrieving, indexing e-mail. None of that is necessary. Evolution works fine. Excellent in fact. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
