EVO is configured to keep 5 days of mail on the server, and that
works as expected, based on what I see in the webmail portal.
Five days of Inbox mail (looking at just the Inbox) is there.
Hi,
do you mean you’ve only 5 days of mails on the server and the server
reports 6GB of mail quota being used? That looks like the server-side
Trash is not emptied. Unless you receive either a lot of small messages
within the past 5 days or they are truly large (megabytes to gigabytes
per message). That being said, if you really have 5 days of mails worth
6GB of data, then evo using 10GB on the dist with mails for 10+ days is
a toy, is it not? Though I do not think it’s the case, I’d rather thing
the server-side Trash is full of the old messages.
This is what is confusing me: In addition to the webmail Inbox, all
of its Inbox sub-folders are also shown, too, and all the years of
mail with them of course. But I guess that’s because all those
folders were created off of the EVO Inbox, well, they’re ALL in the
Inbox? I guess.
Where are “all of its Inbox sub-folders” also shown, please? In the web
interface or in the Evolution? POP3 is a one-way protocol, it only
downloads messages, it does not upload them. By default (server side),
there is downloaded only Inbox folder content of a POP3 account. Most
servers I know of do not allow to download other than the Inbox from
the server when POP3 is used.
I understood you use IMAP and POP3 for the same account, only on two
machines. Would it make sense to use IMAP on both machines? If you’ve a
need to delete messages from the server older than 5 days, then it can
be done easily with message filters, including moving the messages
under On This Computer.
The POP3 account always downloads messages into On This Computer/Inbox.
It doesn’t matter where you move them afterwards, manually or by a
filter, they are always in the On This Computer/Inbox. Moving them
around won’t fix the problem you think you have. I agree with Andre,
there is no problem in the folder structure. Changing it won’t fix
anything.
That you see ~/.local/share/evolution/ of that large kind of makes
sense. The mails are under ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/ and you
should see there at least two directories, one named ‘local’, which
corresponds to the On This Computer in the GUI, and one named by the
POP3 account UID - that contains information about the POP3 messages,
including a uid-cache
file (that contains list of recognized messages
on the server; each line corresponds to one message, thus the count of
the lines should match the count of the messages in the server’s
Inbox). The POP3 has its own cache of the downloaded messages, which
are copied into the On This Computer. It means the messages are stored
on the disk twice. The POP3 cache is supposed to remove messages when
they are deleted from the server. There are also folders.db files,
which contain information visible in the message list in the GUI. That
file can be large as well, depending on the count of messages. It’s an
SQLite3 database file, which can be vacuumed, when there are a lot of
fragmented pages. The new Evolution does that periodically, after
message deletion/expunge and other actions. You should not usually
bother of the folders.db files.
Anyway, all of this is very low level technical information regular
users might not need to know or care about. The important bit of
information from it for you is that moving messages around under the On
This Computer account won’t help with the disk usage for that account.
Bye,
Milan