[Evolution] How do I clean up synchronized IMAP folder?

Xavier Bestel n0made@free.fr
Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:29:30 +0200


Le sam 17/04/2004 =E0 17:58, Bruce A. Mallett a =E9crit :
> Not knowing what it did, under the Evolution snapshot I had the
> "Automatically synchronize remote mail locally" checked.  I learned what
> it did when I selected an IMAP folder containing 3000+ message in
> it.  ;)
>=20
> So I've turned that off and now use the individual folder properties to
> set the offline availability option.  But this brings up an interesting
> question.  Once I disable this option, how do I ever get rid of all of
> the messages that have been downloaded to local store for folders that I
> don't want synchronized?  Is there a way for Evolution to do this for
> me?  Should I just go into my ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<account>/... and
> rm -f them?

You can even rm -Rf ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<account>/ (after having
completely shut down evolution properly, of course).

	Xav