Patrick,
Yes, I clear the Trash every day.
I think I can see what the problem is and where the space is being taken
up.
I have my pop3 set so that the messages are left on the server.
Periodically, I go to the pop3 server(s) and manually delete the
messages that i know I have read and have in Evolution (I tend to do
this so I always have my mail on an available web based server, in case
I'm ever out without my laptop).
Would I be right in assuming that Evolution then cache's the messages
from the various servers - so it knows what has already been retrieved?
If that is the case then that would seem to leave the messages in cache,
even after I delete them from the server and from Evolution itself.
My flow is:
* Get mail from Server
* Cache mail to say retrieved
* Post to VFolders inside Evolution
* At some point I delete the mail from the Server
* At some other point I delete the mail from Evolution (and clear
trash!)
* But does this then leave a copy in cache?
If that is the case, how can I go about clearing 'dead' messages from
cache? My first thoughts were to get all the messages from the servers
and delete them from the Servers - then delete all the cache entries
from evolution. Is that sensible and will that cause me more issues?
I did try yesterday to set the preferences in evolution to delete the
messages on the server after 14 days - but that caused Evolution to
crash (and wouldn't restart) with a calendar error (why an error on the
calendar I don't know!) - so as Evolution loaded and before it crashed,
I changed the preferences back again!
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:00 +0100, Steve T wrote:
> > I am running Evolution 2.8.3 under FC6.
> >
> > >From the size of the Inbox (circa 600mb) and sent (circa 300mb), I
> > have about 1gb of mail - I do use the calendaring and contacts but not
> > to any large degree. The problem I have is that the .evolution folder
> > is taking up about 2.5GB - is there a way of identifying and clearing
> > 'redundant' data/files from this area to reclaim space - or would you
> > expect that size based on the inbox/sent sizes?
>
> Obvious question: have you tried File->Empty Trash? Remember that
> deleted messages are not really deleted until you do this (or
> Folder->Expunge).
>
> poc
>
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