Evolution sucks??

[Ben Scott]

On 2/14/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> I remember a while back ddm discovered that UW-IMAP
> copied an entire folder to /tmp, opened the file, then deleted
> it before "purging" deleted messages.

  Yah, that's how it handles mbox purges.  In all fairness, purging
mbox mailboxes sucks no matter what.  Copying to /tmp and then copying
back is stupid, but most software still rewrites the entire file.  I
guess it's possible to do a rewrite-in-place, but that has other
problems associated with it, and you still have to re-write everything
from after the first deleted message.  mbox does poorly at most
things.  (Just like UW-IMAP.  ;-)  )

-- Ben