On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 10:30 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > 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. ---- umm...I have thousands of e-mails going back way past 2002 including all of my 'Sent' e-mails going back until 1997. I have everything organized and my largest folder is Sent_2008 which has 3391 e-mails in it. The thing is that using cyrus-imapd as I do, I don't have to worry about mbox limitations, my folders are indexed each night for fast searching and I can fire up any computer on my home LAN (i.e. my Windows system), still connect to the same mail so my e-mail is not held hostage to any one program on any one machine. If you do a 'LOT' of e-mail correspondence, you should first figure out the proper spelling of the term, second, figure out the best ways to handle, store, index and optimize the process. ---- > > 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. ---- until it breaks - i.e., the point of this thread. Granted, none of that is necessary...but it's optimal. If I am out of the house, I can still retrieve my e-mail from a web server and if I am looking for a particular e-mail, I can direct a copy of it to my phone. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
