I think this would be a great feature to add, if possible. Perhaps a way to mark a folder as an archive folder so that the mail inside would be stored in a compressed format that would be readable (granted slow) by evolution.
I typically break my inbox and sent folders up in 6 month intervals for historical purposes. I do find myself searching them about once a month on average. As it stands, I've got about 650MB of email in my ~/evolution/local directory. Having the option to compress the stuff I don't use very often but would like to keep handy would be nice. On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:49, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > I think you must be thinking of "Compact Folders" which is terminology > used by Mozilla and Outlook. The equivalent in Evolution is called > Expunge. > > Jeff > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:35, Mark Gordon wrote: > > I seem to recall that mozilla mail (or was it some other mailer I used a > > long time ago?) had an option to "compress mailbox", and that it was > > necessary to do so in order to free up disk space after "deleting" > > messages. If that's what you have in mind, Dennis, Evolution does > > deletion differently, and compressing the mailbox after deleting mail is > > unnecessary. > > > > If you want to use compress, gzip, bzip2, etc. on the mbox file in order > > to save space, as Not Zed says, Evolution won't be able to read it. > > Probably only really useful for archival purposes. > > > > -Mark Gordon > > > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:33, Not Zed wrote: > > > gzip -9 mbox > > > > > > but evolution wont read it. > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:53, Dennis Tuchler wrote: > > > > How do you compress the mbox file? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Sean M. Alderman ITRACK Systems Analyst PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center (216) 433-2795 All people are born alike -- except Republicans and Democrats. -- Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
