On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:22 +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> Some people here are still using 1.4.6 and I notice that a few have
> large pop account cache directories:
> 
>    ~/evolution/mail/pop/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/cache

$ du -c -s -h .evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders
250M    .evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders
250M    total

> What's the safest way to purge these caches?
> Is it necessary to shut evolution down first?
> 
> I'm thinking of doing something like:
> 
>   find $dir -atime +1 ...
> 
> so it doesn't interfere with current operations even if evolution
> is running.  Is that safe?
> 
> (I thought this question might have been asked before but all I could
> find in the archives was that these caches should be purged
> automatically.)

Maybe an at-startup thread that goes thru the cache, deleting 
cached emails that are, say, 7 days old would be useful.  After
the first time, it should be pretty fast.

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