Evolution wastes space

[Eric Battersby]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Sammy Lao wrote:

> Uninstall evolution.
>
> I always do for my personal machines.
>
> Sent from my mobile
>
> On 2011-08-28, at 2:59, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a large mailbox on my CentOS 5 system.
> > I never use Evolution.
> > Except by accident: if I hit a mailto: link on my browser.
> >
> > The ~/.evolution directory is 120 megabytes!
> > 90 megabytes is in a file called .evolution/mail/local/2004july08.sbd.
> >
> > I'm going to blow the whole thing away.

This is good to know.  I never use Evolution too.
I did a 'yum remove evolution' and then blew away '~/.evolution'.

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Eric.
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