On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 22:24 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
>> I searched on launchpad for folder size in evolution, but I don't see it:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bugs?field.searchtext=folder+size
>>
>> Do you have a link to the bug report?
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522433

Which references this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/197290

Many years ago perl under Red Hat did not come packaged with large
file support.  The solution was to rebuild the package with the
parameter enabling large file support.  Evolution under Ubuntu may
require a similar solution.

Rebuilding the package under Red Hat was fairly simple, a one-liner if
I recall correctly.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to do the
equivalent under Ubuntu/Debian.

If we wanted to go down that route, I would start by having a simple
test, ideally a test case that anyone can create and use quickly.  In
this case, a simple test would be to somehow create (i.e. a script or
command) a mail folder with a mailfile that is 1.9 GB and another mail
folder with a mailfile that is 2.2 GB.

Once we have a test, then it's a mater of using Evolution to open one
then the other mailfile, rebuild, and repeat, until Evolution can open
both mailfiles.

The solution may be as simple as adding the gcc flag
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 when compiling Evolution, or it may be as
complicated as adding the gcc flag -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to every
single Evolution dependency.

Regards,
- Robert

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