Hi Milan, Thanks for your answer. I deleted my email account in evolution, closed it and manually deleted everything in "~/.cache/evolution/mail/*".
Then I re-created my email account. I could see initially it was downloading a summary of all the messages, but now it seems it is downloading every single message. The lower banner says "Retrieving message '41785' in INBOX" and is just carrying on... I think it is indeed downloading all messages in my INBOX... The "folders.db" file is about 4MB in size, and the "folders" directory is almost 1GB and growing... I double-checked the synchronisation setting, and it is unselected (which I suppose is the default when you create a new account). Any other idea? Many thanks! On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 07:16 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 21:50 +0000, Fabrice Triboix wrote: > > > > The "Synchronize remote mail locally" option is not enabled. > > It's an IMAP account, with gigabytes of emails. But I don't want > > evolution to download all of that locally. > Hi, > Pete is correct, evolution doesn't download messages locally without > purpose. It does cache folder content in some minimal form, to be > able > to fill the message list with usable data, but the whole messages are > not downloaded. > > I would check whether it's the folder summary which takes so much > disk > space, or the messages are truly downloaded. As you know how much > disk > space is used, I suppose you know where to look. Just in case, it's > under ~/.cache/evolution/mail/<imap-account-uid>/. The folder summary > is stored in a folders.db file, while the cache itself is in > subfolders > there. > > One option would be message filters and junk filtering. Some filter > rules may require full message download, that can be for example when > you filter on headers which are not part of the message list. The > junk > filtering requires whole message content to make correct matches for > spam or ham. > > Of course, when you view a message it's downloaded and stored in the > cache. There used to be no delete interval for the cache in the past, > but since some version, definitely 3.20.0, the cache for folders > which > are not marked for offline usage (there is a global option Pete > talked > about, but also a per-folder option) is periodically cleaned (longer > unseen messages are deleted from the cache to free local disk space). > Bye, > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
