On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 18:01 -0600, Scott Granneman wrote: > So set up his Cable America account to forward email to a Gmail > account. Then set up Evolution to use IMAP to connect to the Gmail > account. You can set the From: to the Cable American account in Gmail. > > Problem solved, & he gets to use his same old email software & his > same old email address.
So long as you don't mind the fact that Google gets to scan every single word of every email he sends or receives ... but I digress. The bug in Evolution crops up, as far as I can tell, when ANY folder gets to be 2GB or larger ... His folder that was the problem was ~./evolution/mail/local/Inbox ... but equally it could have been Trash, or a user-created sub-folder. How would using Google, Gmail, and IMAP make any difference as to what content is stored in his local .evolution directory? Please note that in Evolution, imap, local, and pop are all subdirectories on the same level -- actual downloaded and stored messages are kept in 'local', and not in POP. So I don't think it matters which protocol is being used. When this happens to most users, they get an error when Evolution starts. In his case, we got no error message. However, the symptoms were exactly the same, which is, whatever folder(s) are > 2GB, don't display correctly, instead showing zero messages. Or am I not understanding the Google connection? Does using Gmail and IMAP mean that nothing, absolutely nothing, is being stored on his local machine? Otherwise, it doesn't fix a thing. Theresa > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > > "Conservatism, with its belief in institutions, traditions, and the > past, will seemingly always privilege (perhaps inadvertently) the > powerful over the powerless. Institutions, traditions and the past > belong to those with power. Privileging them, privileges their > agents." > ---Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 9 June 2009 > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because I'm not the one with the problem -- and I don't think "tell the > > user they shouldn't use the email application they know and have used > > for years" is necessarily the correct answer, whether it's true or not. > > Besides, I have tried getting him to use other apps, like Thunderbird, > > but he's old and stubborn, knows what he knows, and doesn't take kindly > > to change. > > > > And, it isn't for accessing a Gmail account, it's for accessing a Cable > > America POP3 account. > > > > Finally, I'd like to know how Shuttleworth expects people to take Ubuntu > > seriously, when the default email client contains such a > > poorly-documented show-stopping multi-year old bug? > > > > Theresa > > > > > > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 13:21 -0600, Scott Granneman wrote: > >> My question is, why don't you use Gmail & then use Evolution to access > >> Gmail through IMAP so you never have to worry about this crap again? > >> Or better yet, just use the Web interface? > >> > >> Scott > >> -- > >> R. Scott Granneman > >> [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com > >> Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > >> My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > >> > >> "My job is a decision-making job. And as a result, I make a lot of > >> decisions." > >> ---George W. Bush, 3 October 2007 > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Nathan Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I don't know if notify-osd is available for LTS but if it is I believe > >> > it (or maybe it was libnotify) has a command line util to display > >> > popups. You could display a "sticky" message, i.e. it doesn't go away, > >> > warning of this. > >> > > >> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 23:28 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > >> >>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> > >> >>> wrote: > >> >>> > So Robert, if you're reading this thread, and if you're bored, how > >> >>> > *would* one go about writing a simple cron script to run once-daily, > >> >>> > to > >> >>> > check the file size of every file in ~/.evolution/mail/local/ and > >> >>> > give > >> >>> > the user a warning if any file is larger than 1.5GB? > >> >>> > >> >>> Yup, reading thread. Nope, not bored, just need a break from other > >> >>> stuff. Cron job: > >> >>> > >> >>> $ crontab -l > >> >>> > >> >>> SHELL=/bin/bash > >> >>> > >> >>> # field allowed values > >> >>> # ----- -------------- > >> >>> # /----------- minute 0-59 > >> >>> # | /--------- hour 0-23 > >> >>> # | | /------- day of month 1-31 > >> >>> # | | | /----- month 1-12 (or names, see below) > >> >>> # | | | | /--- day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) > >> >>> # | | | | | > >> >>> * * * * * date > /tmp/date.log > >> >>> > >> >>> Find files that exceed 1.5 GB in size: > >> >>> > >> >>> $ find /home/rwcitek/.evolution/mail/local/ -size +1500M -ls | > >> >>> head -1 | > >> >>> grep -q . && > >> >>> echo yes > >> >>> > >> >>> The question is, how do you want to be warned? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Not by email :) > >> >> > >> >> If I'm willing to go through some hoops, I can sudo apt-get install > >> >> linpopup, tweak the system to start it up at login, take your script's > >> >> output (as a .txt file), and: > >> >> > >> >> cat output.txt | smbclient -M shiny > >> >> > >> >> So long as I'm willing to always have linpopup minimized. Otherwise, if > >> >> it's not running, it will store the messages but not display them. > >> >> > >> >> I can't assume there will be a terminal, so sending a message that way > >> >> won't work, either. > >> >> > >> >> What would you suggest? I haven't really found any easy way to do this. > >> >> > >> >> Theresa > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > >> >> Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > >> >> To post: [email protected] > >> >> To subscribe: [email protected] > >> >> To unsubscribe: [email protected] > >> >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > >> >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > >> > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > >> > To post: [email protected] > >> > To subscribe: [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > >> > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > >> > > >> > > > > -- > > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > > To post: [email protected] > > To subscribe: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > > > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
