The filesystem is XFS, so that's certainly not a problem. I created yearly folders under "On This Computer" and moved them from Inbox, but somehow the size of the file did not shrink.
On 3/27/06, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:26:22PM -0600, Mark Pinto wrote: > > Evolution has stopped being able to receive new emails. When I try to > > fetch new mail (pop3), I receive this error message: > > "Error while Feching Mail. Cannot append message to mbox file: > > /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File too large" > > > > ls -lh on the file shows that it is 2.0G in size. What can I do short > > of deleting emails? > > This sounds like a filesystem issue. You're most likely storing your > mbox file on a FAT32 or an older ext2 filesystem. While you could > probably fix this by moving the mbox to a different filesystem, what you > really SHOULD do is cut down on how much stuff you have in that mbox. > > Having a 2GB+ mbox file means that EVERY time you go to open up your > mail reader, it has to open a 2 GB file and read every single line in it > to get the list of emails. This is EXTREMELY inefficient. You should > either switch to a file-per-email system (ala maildir) or use different > folders as suggested by another poster. > > -- > Alex Malinovich > Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! > Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the > pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEKGiGBPYwh6bSSDcRAvUGAJ9VYgipjvYggWoRXV3WcYmT11LGNwCeJOFL > 4QoqJNy8z9WBc8qdHo9jiFg= > =4lzS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
