On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 21:04 +0100, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: > Le lundi 20 décembre 2010 à 09:14 -0500, Darren Govoni a écrit : > > 1) I now get frequent "error storing folders", "error generating > > message list" > > 2) It's so slow. It is always "Storing folder", taking almost minutes > > to complete. Its on average 5-8x slower > > downloading, storing and viewing messages. > > 3) Its very buggy. When new messages arrive, they no longer show up in > > the folder I'm viewing. > > I have to click another folder and click back to see them. > > 4) For the first time ever, it corrupted my email files and I had to > > recover from backup. > I had these issues until I understood that the deleted messages are not > deleted. They are simply hidden. Thus the mailboxes become huge and > unusable. There is no automatic purge of deleted messages. This is a > flaw in the design of Evolution.
Automatically purging messages would be an error. [IMHO the correct solution is to *remove* the Hide-Deleted-Messages option]. You can't make everyone happy. > Use the purge feature. I don't remember exactly where it is hidden. I > think it is in Folder=>Clean (or something like that). Folder / Expunge - or - Ctrl-E > Yes you are right. Using PostgreSQL to store the messages would make > more sense. That would make no sense for a local desktop application - to have to have a database instance to store [cache] mail? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
