Evolution: my sent folder just disappeared.

[linuxguy]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:50 -0400, Tom Rivers wrote:
> On 8/20/2008 3:40 PM, linuxguy wrote:
> > I just got a "Value too large for defined data type" error when I sent
> > an email from Evolution.
> >
> > According to this post, it seems my sent file is too large for the
> > filesystem (ext3) ?
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list@gnome.org/msg09160.html
> >
> > How might I fix this ?
> >   
> 
> Have you tried creating additional folders to archive sent messages and 
> moving some of the sent email into them from the main "Sent" folder?  I 
> routinely archive every large folder I have into sub folders by calendar 
> year to keep things from getting too big to manage and haven't run into 
> this problem yet.

I will do this when I get my Sent folder back.   Right now it isn't
present in EV to do this.

I do this with my main Inbox folder.   I didn't realize I was about to
exceed the file size limit of ext3 with my send folder.