Sounds like a good idea for a wishlist bug. I took a quick look and couldn't find any such existing wishlist bug.
-Mark Gordon On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:16, Sean M. Alderman wrote: > 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
