Hello Patrick, Space on /tmp is never a problem on my laptop. I have 15GB available now and likely had a similar amount when I had my expunge problem.
I regularly do expunge my Inbox. 5-6 times a day. My expunge problem was triggered by receiving an e-mail with a large attachment from my mother-in-law. I know it is not fair to blame the mother in law but she is an easy target. ;-) The morale of the story in my opinion, is to not keep all your e-mail for the last decade in your current Inbox. Anyway, I hope my solution helps someone else out. Thanks, Rob On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:18 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:19 -0400, William Case wrote: > > Hi Rob; > > > > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:00 -0400, Robert Seward wrote: > > > Hello William, > > > > > > > > William, in your case you might be able to use mutt (or something > > > similar) to strategically delete the persistent e-mail that can't be > > > expunged. > > > > > > Best of luck, > > > Rob > > > > > > > > I should of thought of using mutt to expunge. I found a slightly > > different solution this time, but I will try mutt if it ever happens > > again. > > > > I should of thought of it, because every few months I prune my saved > > folder by moving posts I want to keep into an Evo archive file, copy the > > archive to a text file in a completely separate directory, empty the Evo > > archive and use mutt to view the archive.txt when I need to. > > I suspect this sort of problem arises when the local mbox file for Inbox > gets close to 2GB in size, because the internal Evo indices only handle > up to 2GB per file even though the underlying filesystem might support > much larger files (I seem to remember reports of this in the past but I > can't be bothered hunting them down :-). Not expunging your deleted > mails regularly will do that. If you use a different local format such > as Maildir, you shouldn't have this problem, but support for Maildir in > Evo seems to have stagnated. > > Another reason to keep most of your mail on IMAP ... > > Note that you can also get issues when there isn't enough free space on > the /tmp filesystem to allow an expunge of a huge mbox file to work > (expunging of mbox implies copying). > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Rob Seward Bluestone Consulting Group, LLC web: http://www.bluestone-consulting.com/ e-mail: rsew...@bluestone-consulting.com office: 734.274.5168 mobile: 734.604.3780 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
