[ale] evolution

[Geoffrey]

Every mailer I've used on a unix box stores the mail as plain text in 
separate directories based on the mail tool.  What I do is, go to the 
directory where the email resides, tar up the particular directory I 
want to archive and then delete those emails via the email client I'm using.

cfowler wrote:
> Is there a way to archive this data like in Outlook?  I  try not to
> delete mail.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:44, Doug McNash wrote:
> 
>>rm -f /var/spool/mail/<your_user_id_here>
>>or 
>>cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/<your_user_id_here>
>>
>>I'm not sure which is faster, both are pretty fast.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Is there a way to delete all email at once. I have been 
>>>lazy about this
>>>and I have like 6000 in my inbox. I am using evolution.
>>>
>>
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