On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:15, Marcus Franke wrote: > Am Son, 2002-07-21 um 15.06 schrieb Not Zed: > > On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 22:04, Steve wrote: > > > To all: > > > > > > I deleted all my emails out of evolution (after doing a backup), which > > > were swelling my evolution directory to about 90 megs. > > > > > > After deleting the emails, I find I still have a pile of "mbox.ibex" > > > files that make up most of the 80 megs that is still in here. I don't > > > dare delete them, as it seems they contain filter settings, and so on. > > > > > > How in the world do you compact or shrink these monsters...? > > > > Just delete them. They dont contain any settings, only a cache of > > information in the folder. > > > > In 1.2 these files auto-compact, but in 1.0 they do not. > A question about this, Evolution seems to use the mbox format. > Can I switch to maildir?
goto file->folders->properties for xxxx. You can also just create a new 'external account' which points to an existing maildir tree (which probably works better than changing your inbox to be maildir, etc). > <possibly stupid question> > Other question, can I use a second programm like mutt and read > my mails? My Computer at work keeps running and running and > sometimes I use the computer at home to login into the company > network and I could read this way my emails.. At the moment I > have no real mailserver here.. > </possibly stupid question> Yep. With the standard mailbox format, its better not to run them both at the same time, but with maildir format it should work ok. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
