Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:10 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > I'm attempting to get my old email under control. I have about 450M in > > an 'OldMail' folder in evolution. It's stored in mbox format. > > > > If I tar up the entire 'OldMail' directory which includes this list: > > > > total 427933 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jcooper users 86 Oct 10 2003 folder-metadata.xml > > -rw------- 1 jcooper users 95 Aug 18 12:51 local-metadata.xml > > -rw------- 1 jcooper users 434518823 Aug 19 15:24 mbox > > -rw------- 1 jcooper users 762091 Aug 19 15:24 mbox.ev-summary > > -rw------- 1 jcooper users 928768 Aug 19 15:24 mbox.ibex.index > > -rw------- 1 jcooper users 1550676 Aug 19 15:24 mbox.ibex.index.data > > > > Can I just remove it? Will evolution barf on it disappearing? Also, > > later down the road, if I copied it back into place, would evolution > > recognize it correctly? > > > > I guess the point I'm really trying to get at is this. Does evolution > > rely solely on the contents of this directory to tell it what mail is > > there? > > > > Usually I would just experiment, but this data is too critical. :( > > If you put a new mbox file in the directory /while Evo is shut down/, > then, the next time it starts up, it will re-index the emails. > > Thus, since a 0 length mbox is valid, Evo will that, too. > > For example: > $ evolution --force-shutdown > $ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` > $ mv ~/evolution/mail/local/subdirs/OldMail/mbox \ > ~/tmp/OldMail-$x.mbox > $ gzip ~/tmp/OldMail-$x.mbox > $ touch ~/evolution/mail/local/subdirs/OldMail/mbox > $ evolution ## Evo will start up fine > > (Yes, the subdirectory tree is wrong, but close enough for these > purposes.)
Thanks for the summary. I didn't think to touch the mbox file. I'll add that to my script. I'm breaking OldMail down (from within evo) into a folder for each month, so I can be a little more selective on what goes to our backup server. Thanks again for the quick replies. Cooper. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
