On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:33 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 20:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > Yes but imap isn't a cache, pop is!
> 
> If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and acts like a duck...
> 
> It's a header cache.
> 
> $ du -a .evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders/INBOX | \
>        grep HEADER$ | wc -l
> 58305
> 
> Do those 58K files need to sit there for all eternity?

Thats why IT ISN'T A CACHE.  A cache has a limit, things get removed
from it eventually.  Things NEVER get removed from the imap 'cache',
so ... it isn't a cache.  It is more of a server-copy.



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