Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2006-01-09 Thread John McFall
Hi My name is John McFall and I just joined the list. I sent you a question about your recommending me a PCI card for my machine carrying Fedora so that I would be able to send\receive email on my wifi network with the linux machine being the lead machine in the network. You sent me this me

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 15:13 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:17 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:49 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 12:36 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > On

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 20:09 +0100, Erik Slagter wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > > > that's just not right. if you have a pop account in evolution, > > evolution stores all email from that account in an mbox format. and > > then you get screwed when that mbox fil

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 15:13 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > But it gives me a choice of pop OR maildir. I need my messages to be > > > downloaded from the POP server then delivered into the maildir. > > > > Create *both* a "POP" (which is really a local mbox) *and* a maildir > > store. > > Ah so

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 15:07 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > 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*. > > Evo takes 5 minutes to close as it has to

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:17 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:49 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 12:36 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > O

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 20:22 +0100, Erik Slagter wrote: > 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 mb

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Erik Slagter
> > But it gives me a choice of pop OR maildir. I need my messages to be > > downloaded from the POP server then delivered into the maildir. > > Create *both* a "POP" (which is really a local mbox) *and* a maildir > store. > > When you click on Get/Send, it will drop the emails into the mbox > f

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Erik Slagter
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 t

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:49 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 12:36 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > On

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Marcos Pinto
already did. :-) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324679 On 12/28/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > > that's just not right. if you have a pop account in evolution, > > evolution stores all email from that account in an

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > that's just not right. if you have a pop account in evolution, > evolution stores all email from that account in an mbox format. and > then you get screwed when that mbox file gets over 2G It sounds like you should file this as a bug repor

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > that's just not right. if you have a pop account in evolution, > evolution stores all email from that account in an mbox format. and > then you get screwed when that mbox file gets over 2G If you get evolution to download them all, yeah.

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
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 Mail

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:49 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 12:36 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:50 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > > > > >

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Marcos Pinto
that's just not right. if you have a pop account in evolution, evolution stores all email from that account in an mbox format. and then you get screwed when that mbox file gets over 2G On 12/28/05, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > >

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > But it gives me a choice of pop OR maildir. I need my messages to be > downloaded from the POP server then delivered into the maildir. Actually any account is (indeed) EITHER pop OR mbox (OR imap, etc.) The idea of pop (but stronger with im

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 12:36 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:50 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:40 -0500, Lee Reve

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:50 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Evolution supports Maildir? This is news to me

Re: Off-topic :: Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:12 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:42 -0800, Greg Tassone wrote: > > FYI: I am running ReiserFS on the 2.6.13 kernel series (version 3.6.19 > > of reiserfsprogs) and I'm having zero problems regularly handling 20 GB > > container files and th

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:50 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Evolution supports Maildir? This is news to me. > > > > > > How exactly do I tell Evo to use a Maildir instead

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:50 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > Evolution supports Maildir? This is news to me. > > > > How exactly do I tell Evo to use a Maildir instead of mbox? > > > > Its been there for quite sometime now. I use it

Re: Off-topic :: Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Greg Tassone
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:12 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:42 -0800, Greg Tassone wrote: > > FYI: I am running ReiserFS on the 2.6.13 kernel series (version 3.6.19 > > of reiserfsprogs) and I'm having zero problems regularly handling 20 GB > > container files and th

Off-topic :: Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread B S Srinidhi
Hi, On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:42 -0800, Greg Tassone wrote: > FYI: I am running ReiserFS on the 2.6.13 kernel series (version 3.6.19 > of reiserfsprogs) and I'm having zero problems regularly handling 20 GB > container files and the like. > Oh! Thanx for giving me that info. I always thought tha

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-28 Thread Greg Tassone
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:59 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > can anyone else confirm that evolution cant handle mbox files over 2G? Just to clarify, I wasn't making that statement in regards to _Evolution_ handling files that large. I was merely responding to the comments of B S Srinidhi, which seeme

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread B S Srinidhi
Hi, On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Evolution supports Maildir? This is news to me. > > How exactly do I tell Evo to use a Maildir instead of mbox? > Its been there for quite sometime now. I use it for some of my 'test' accounts on my machine. Create a new account and i

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread B S Srinidhi
Hi, On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:55 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > i've used mb2md to convert the Sent mbox to maildir. but now, how do > i have evolution use that for Sent? how do i add the maildir folder > to evolution? > Go to "Edit Preferences", and select your (active) account in "Accounts" and

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread Marcos Pinto
can anyone else confirm that evolution cant handle mbox files over 2G? On 12/27/05, Greg Tassone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 13:10 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > ... > FYI: I am running ReiserFS on the 2.6.13 kernel series (version 3.6.19 > of reiserfsprogs) and I'm having ze

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread Marcos Pinto
i've used mb2md to convert the Sent mbox to maildir. but now, how do i have evolution use that for Sent? how do i add the maildir folder to evolution? On 12/26/05, B S Srinidhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if there is any better way of doing this, but I can think > of two wa

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread Greg Tassone
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 13:10 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: ... > > The file is 2G and the filesystem can indeed handle 2G+ files. I'm > > running kernel 2.6.13 on Debian sid with reiserfs. > > I'm also using ReiserFS. Are you sure that 2G+ files are being handled > correctly? I've faced problems with

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 13:10 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > > Evolution is giving me this error: > > Failed to appened local `Sent' folder: cannot append message to mbox > > file: /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Sent: File too larg

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread B S Srinidhi
Hi, On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > Evolution is giving me this error: > Failed to appened local `Sent' folder: cannot append message to mbox > file: /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Sent: File too large > What can I do about this, short of deleting my emails or moving

Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

2005-12-27 Thread B S Srinidhi
Hi, On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote: > Evolution is giving me this error: > Failed to appened local `Sent' folder: cannot append message to mbox > file: /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Sent: File too large > What can I do about this, short of deleting my emails or moving