Evolution wastes space

[Howard Gibson]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:59:23 -0400 (EDT)
"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.
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Hugh,

   Try setting the email tool in your browser.  My browser brings up Sylpheed, which is the email tool I use.

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