On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 18:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:41 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:34 +0000, g wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > > linuxguy wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I will do this when I get my Sent folder back. Right now it isn't > > > > present in EV to do this. > > > > > > if you are adventurous, you can try what i did a few years back with ev. > > > > > > with a file browser, locate your 'sent' folder, open with a text editor. > > > then manually save to a new file, 'sent00'. > > > > > > open 'sent00', page down about half way into it, back up to start of a > > > message. then delete messages to end, save as a new file name, 'sent01'. > > > > > > reopen 'sent00', page down to message you started of message you started > > > you delete from, delete back to start of file, save as 'sent02'. > > > > > > rename original 'sent' file to 'sent.org', open a terminal, or command shell, > > > touch 'sent' to create a new 'sent'. > > > > > > look at associated files of 'sent', create them for 'sent01' and 'sent02'. > > > > > > reopen ev and you should now have an empty 'sent' plus a new 'sent01' and > > > 'sent02'. > > > > > > there may be an easier way, but this did work for me. > > ---- > > I found that emacs gagged on 2Gb files and had to use vi for files of > > this size but it was painful. > > > > You can use the 'split' command (man split for details). > > > > you could conceivably split the file into 8 pieces and thus only lose 8 > > e-mails. > > I'm pretty sure formail (part of the procmail package) can do this > safely. ---- good to know but I have abandoned all mbox type mail in favor of cyrus-imapd and if the client gets clogged...I just delete the client cache and start over (not that I ever have to do that). Thus the worst offenders these days are broken pst files on Windows and broken 'Database' files on Entourage/Macintosh...the nasty things that Microsoft offers as mail clients. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
