[NTLUG:Discuss] Evolution & User Disk Space - Limits? Issues?

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:35, David Simmons wrote:
> > not sure if this will help at all. 
> > make sure that you have the latest evolution stuff. It changes 
> > quite often. 1.4.something is the latest. 
> 
> I'm on RedHat9 as my Evolution client....it's showing 1.2.2 as the
> 'latest/greatest' from RedHat (and FreshRPMS)
> 

Oh, good lord, RedHat is behind the times in this case.  The latest is
1.4.5 - I just upgraded Evolution on my box 2 days ago.

> > I use red-carpet to keep my stuff up to date. I've used evolution 
> > for 6+ months and am fairly happy with it.  Just make sure you keep 
> > it updated. 
> 
> Hmm....maybe that's the problem?  Can I use Red-Carpet JUST to do
> Evolution and not the whole X2 Desktop?  Hmm...time to RTFM
> 

Yes, you can. Take a look at:

http://ximian.com/products/evolution/download.html

The installer will let you decide if you want XD2 or Evolution or all of
it.

> > As far as number of messages go... I hae 2946 in one Inbox and
> > 4543 in another. These are IMAP folders ( on an IMAP server ) so 
> > it may be different than your setup.
> 
> I want/need this to be a POP type of account....I can show it can handle
> large numbers of files (my Archived Sent Items has about 3000+)....just
> weird what it's doing now).
> 

I use POP and have 2247 messages in my Inbox so the number of messages
should not be an issue. 

There is a procedure for converting from Outlook to Evolution in the
Ximian Support pages.  It's a long URL so I used makeashorterlink to
make it readable in an email:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?G3CA15A46

> Thanks - will keep searching! - Dave
> 
> 

Good luck.

> 
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Alton R. Pouncey, II
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