On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:14 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 19:55 +0100, Erik Slagter wrote: > > These messages are then stored into an evolution-specific format which > > you cannot select and has nothing to do with mbox or maildir. > > Yes, this was what I was getting at - is there a way to change Evo's > INTERNAL mail storage format to Maildir. I guess not. > > And yes, it does have something to do with mbox, in fact this > "evolution-specific format" is nothing but (indexed) mbox AKA one huge > text file with all the messages appended: > > $ head .evolution/mail/local/LKML > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 1 01:08:16 2005 > Return-Path: > <linux-kernel-owner > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: (qmail 4526 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2005 01:08:16 -0000 > Received: from unknown (HELO vger.kernel.org) (209.132.176.167) by viper > with SMTP; 1 Dec 2005 01:08:16 -0000 > Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand > id > S1751607AbVLABHY (ORCPT <rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>); Wed, 30 > Nov 2005 > 20:07:24 -0500 > > etc > > And THIS is the cause of Evo's scalability problems - it would be better > if Evo *internally* use one file per message AKA maildir.
I don't see the problem if it uses an *index*.
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