Serious Evolution Problem

[ruscook]

I know this doesn't help your immediate problem, but as a FYI. I was
using Pop. What I did was move to postfix, fetchmail and dovecot (I
muddled through the setup, I'm not an expert at all). 

Now fetchmail d/l (as a process regularly) from my many pop accounts
into my local account, via postfix. Dovecot provides the IMAP service so
I can use thunderbird or evolution or sylpheed  interchangeably as I
wish,  to access any mail folder using the imap protocol. This is MUCH
more efficient and flexible than a local database tied to one
application.

I don't know of an editor that can open an editing window/slice into a
file that is bigger than total memory - sorry. Well word etc will do it
and I think editpad, but I don't know of a linux one. Possibly one of
the text based editors like vim might do this? They will allow you to
search for your errant message by its FROM address and then you can
delete the message line by line I suppose.

Russ


On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:18 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:

> 10132006 1615 GMT-6
> 
> I had to move off of Thunderbird because of my large mail storage. Once I got above 3gigs it didnt work well. 
> 
> Im using a POP down loading off the server. 
> 
> How do you open a 1.2Gig file? gedit cant do it. 
> 
> wade
> 
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: Serious Evolution Problem
> > From: ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au>
> > Date: Fri, October 13, 2006 3:59 pm
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> > <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > 
> >        I missed what mail protocol you're using. I use IMAP and have both Evolution and Thunderbird configured to read the same IMAP accounts. This way when one of them screws up, which they do now and then, I can open my account in the other. This is important to me.  I like the integrated calendar with Evolution and it is fast to read mail. It is slow in it's rules and doesn't have the  "remove duplicate" messages that Thunderbird has. 
> >  
> >  This gives me flexibility.  I don't know if this is useful for your situation
> >  
> >  Russ
> >  
> >  On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:14 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
> >   On 13/10/06, wade at wadesmart.com <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:    10132006 0956 GMT-6
> >  
> >  Ok. I backed up my mail - all 6G of it. Now, I tried the mail command but it gives me stuff from 2004, when I first got onto Ubuntu. I read the man files but Im not great with the command line. I typed in mail and it shoes me 20 files with Anacron Jobs written on them. How do I switch to my evolution inbox?     
> >  Whilst in mail
> >  
> >  d to delete the current email
> >  n to move to the next one
> >  q to quit
> >  
> >  As for how to switch to your Evolution mailbox, you will need to determine where Evolution stores this mailbox and you can attempt to read it with 
> >  
> >  mail -f <"/path/to/evolution/mailbox"
> >  
> >  I would have hoped that it was working in ~/mbox but it appears from your surprise at finding housekeeping mail going back to 2004, that it doesn't.
> >  
> >  Of course, this relies on the fact that evolution stores its mailbox in standard mbox format - you'll need to refer to your Evolution docs determine if this is the case or not.
> >  
> >  -- 
> >  Steve
> >  Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...
> >      Kind Regards Russell
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