On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 10:05 -0600, Phil Sackinger wrote:
> I'm running Evo 1.4.5 and use Maildir format for both my inbox coming
> from an IMAP server on a Solaris box and many local folders in my home
> directory (sitting on an NFS server).
> 
> A long-time problem I've had is when Evo has run for a few days
> typically it displays an error message about
> too many open files (see attached). It's hard to get much done, fetching
> new messages from my IMAP server gets caught. 
> 
> Usually, I must close Evo and do a --force-shutdown, (aka killev) before
> restarting and resuming work. [This is actually an improvement - under
> Evo 1.2.* restarting wouldn't work, had to rm -r .gconf directories and
> go through the whole setup wizard thing and endure hundreds of
> suddenly-reborn calendar notification messages.]
> 
> Is Maildir inherently more susceptible to this problem? Would it go away
> if I converted my Inbox and/or local folders to mbox (it seems like One
> Big File like mbox would have fewer open files, at least)? Are there
> other possible settings that could be responsible? (My shell ulimit
> shows 1024 maximum open files possible.)?

Evo keeps cached copies of your emails.

Do you delete the mails off the IMAP server as fetch them?

Another thing is: how many emails do you have in Inbox?  I have a 
Maildir folder with 5,900 emails in it, and Evo never squawks.

Moving emails to sub-folders would eliminate having to open all emails
at once.

-- 
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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