>>> On 12/16/2009 at 01:16 AM, in message <[email protected]>, Chenthill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi fellow hackers!! > I have been working for a while during last week on one the blockers > in evolution - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550414 - > 'Folder and summary mismatch error'(old one - > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213072). As a matter of fact > we have been working as a team to get the blockers down. I have not been > able to reproduce the issue or yet find the exact problematic area. > > The mismatch in the frompos index in the folder summary may be caused > by either a threading issue or a crash while storing the indexes. I am > still investigating it to find the real cause. > > Looking at other issues such as, > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522433 - 'Fails opening mbox >> 2GB', just got a thought if we could solve both the issues by, > > Approach #1, > migrating local storage from mbox to maildir format. With maildir I have > heard about two issues, > > * Not able to create subfolders under INBOX - > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536240 . > > Approach #2, > Migrate from a single mbox file per folder to mbox per email. Srini > mentioned an advantage that this would avoid the file renames that > maildir does. I think this is much like how other remote providers in > evo store the email. > > I thought of bring this in this list to gather more opinions to choose > the right one. The approach #2 seems a better one as we are choosing a > way for storing the messages internally in evo. Are we missing to see > anything while we choose the second one ? > > One advantage which I see with #1 is that its a standard way. > > Thanks, Chenthill. >
Last I checked, maildir is known to have problems in windows. If so, Is Evo-on-Win a priority, etc. ? The mail storage part used by the GroupWise provider is same as what you suggest (afaics) IIRC, I was told that it was derived from some cyrus storage style. Thanks. -- Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
