On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 00:24, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > When you delete a message, it isn't removed from the mbox file and so > nor is it removed from the ibex files as it is very possible that the > user will decide to undelete it. > > You'll notice that unless you have Evolution set to "Hide Deleted > Messages", you will still see the deleted message in the message list > but it will just be striked out. > > Expunge purges deleted messages from the mbox file. Some mail clients > like Netscape call this "Compact Folder" or whatever.
i give you an example now maybe it explains it better. i just copied 1368 mails to my Drafts folder the results look like this: bash-2.05b$ ls -l Drafts/ total 9040 1 galaxy users 97 Sep 22 22:37 folder-metadata.xml 1 galaxy users 95 Sep 23 05:13 local-metadata.xml 1 galaxy users 7888815 Sep 23 05:18 mbox 1 galaxy users 294750 Sep 23 05:18 mbox.ev-summary 1 galaxy users 666624 Sep 23 05:18 mbox.ibex.index 1 galaxy users 991908 Sep 23 05:18 mbox.ibex.index.data bash-2.05b$ now i delete all mails in the Drafts folder and i will do an 'Empty Trash' and 'Expunge' only to make it clear. the results look like this: bash-2.05b$ ls -l Drafts/ total 1636 1 galaxy users 97 Sep 22 22:37 folder-metadata.xml 1 galaxy users 95 Sep 23 05:13 local-metadata.xml 1 galaxy users 0 Sep 23 05:22 mbox 1 galaxy users 21 Sep 23 05:22 mbox.ev-summary 1 galaxy users 666624 Sep 23 05:22 mbox.ibex.index 1 galaxy users 991908 Sep 23 05:18 mbox.ibex.index.data bash-2.05b$ hope this clears some stuff up. now i copied exactly one email to the Drafts folder. the results look like this: bash-2.05b$ ls -l Drafts/ total 1640 1 galaxy users 97 Sep 22 22:37 folder-metadata.xml 1 galaxy users 95 Sep 23 05:13 local-metadata.xml 1 galaxy users 2064 Sep 23 05:23 mbox 1 galaxy users 252 Sep 23 05:23 mbox.ev-summary 1 galaxy users 667648 Sep 23 05:23 mbox.ibex.index 1 galaxy users 992796 Sep 23 05:23 mbox.ibex.index.data bash-2.05b$ you can imagine if i deal with large mailinglists such as lkm then i get a lot of emails each day, now if i delete the stuff and see how the ibex files stays the same size and enlargens itself more and more then at the end (2-3 months) i end up in a 50 mb ibex file and a 500kb mbox file (if i keep it short e.g. 50-100 emails). i call this a serious issue that needs to get urgently nailed down. btw: i hope i wasn't offensive. -- Name....: Ali Akcaagac Status..: Student Of Computer & Economic Science E-Mail..: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.....: http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
