> -------Original Message------- > From: Siddhartha Chinthapally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [twincling] Archiving old mail using Evolution? > Sent: 27 Apr '07 09:11 > > Hi all, > > If any of you have solved this problem, please help me out. > I use Evolution 2.2.2 on FC4, for my office mail. > > As this version of evolution uses mbox (or mbx) format, all the mails in > a > folder are stored on a single file and deleting mails is taking too long. > When I delete a mail from a folder which has about 3000 mails and then > close > the app, it takes > about 30 seconds or so to save/update the folder and exit. > > I would like to archive older mail but Evolution does not provide > archiving > functionality. > Any ideas other than manually splitting the files? > > Thanks, > Siddhartha
Is there are a way to create an index of mails ? The time taken is quite high ! I use Pine and each of the folders has more than 20,000+ mails. When I try to delete a bunch of mails, there is a momentary hold of couple of seconds. Hope that your home dir is not on an NFS mount. thanks Saifi.
