On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 13:10 -0400, Zak Wilson wrote: > I have 35,000 email messages stored here, and I'd like to keep them in > Evolution where I can sort them, search them and arrange things with > search > folders. I'd be happy to delete a couple corrupted messages if that's > the > issue. The difficulty is finding them. If there's something specific > to look > for, I can write a script to search the inbox for corrupted messages. > If > there are other solutions or workarounds, I'd really like to hear > them.
If Milan's suggestion (see separate answer) doesn't work out, you can use formail (part of the procmail package) to rewrite the entire mbox file in canonical form. This is usually enough to catch any borked messages (you may find that two consecutive messages have been joined together). Make sure Evo is completely stopped before doing this). I would also suggest splitting your Inbox into several folders, e.g. by date or by topic. Very large mbox files are always inefficient and of course any inconsistency in them can potentially affect the whole folder. Note that you can still do global searches by selecting "Local Account" in the drop-down menu to the right of the search bar. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
