On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:38 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 13:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > [Replying to own post] > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > Link the cache folders you don't want to /dev/null? (I haven't tried > > > > > this and don't know about any possible side-effects). > > > > > > > > This makes no sense e.g. you might want to cache a subfolder but not its > > > > parent, or cache headers but not bodies, etc. etc. In my defense I > > > > haven't had my morning tea yet :-) > > > > > > > > > > Also it doesn't stop Evo from going of and getting things, it just > > > doesn't store it anywhere. > > > > > > For me, I would like a way of selectively marking folders for checking > > > for new mail - mail only appears in some of my folders (mainly as a > > > result of server side filtering), the vast majority either get populated > > > as a result of Evo filters, or things get put there manually. At the > > > moment Evo takes ages to sort itself out when I first start it because > > > it goes through all my subscribed folders looking for new mail - I don't > > > want to untick the 'Check for new messages in all folders' because there > > > are some folders that I want to check - I don't want to unsubscribe the > > > folders because I use the (unchanging) information in them. > > > > Do you use Maildir-based IMAP? > > > > No. Or at least not yet - it's on the ToDo list. Why?
$ dir Maildir/.Lists.Evo-user/ total 1608 drwx-w---- 6 me me 4096 Sep 23 2005 ./ drwx-w---- 64 me me 4096 Apr 12 13:06 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 me me 17 Apr 17 2004 courierimapacl drwx-w---- 2 me me 4096 Mar 28 08:47 courierimapkeywords/ -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 755612 Apr 19 15:03 courierimapuiddb drwx-w---- 2 me me 856064 Apr 19 15:03 cur/ -rw--w---- 1 me me 0 Apr 17 2004 maildirfolder drwx-w---- 2 me me 4096 Apr 19 15:03 new/ drwx-w---- 2 me me 4096 Apr 19 16:23 tmp/ In Maildir storage, new emails are dropped in new/, and "already read" emails are in cur/. So, even if there are 10,000,000 records in cur/, it's really easy to read thru the 100 records in new/. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order." Jawaharlal Nehru _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
