Evolution crashes when the Inbox size exceeds 2GB. As a result, when you open Evolution the Inbox will be empty, and an Error message will be at the bottom that says
Error while opening folder mbox:/home/myname/.evolution/mail/local #inbox

The solution is to archive your mails frequently. Clear your trash frequently.

 And in this particualr occasion, when your Evolution is crashing use the help of archivemail

In Fedora, perform the following.

 As root

yum install archivemail

Since I came across this issue several times I thought of blogging about it to save my time and to help any one who might need this advice.

MySQL by default has a row size limit of 64K as at MySQL 5.0. Therefore if you save a file larger than that anything after the max size will not be saved. So do not be surprised if you find the data that is saved to be corrupted.

Obvious solution to this would be to increase the MySQL max_allowed_packet variable to a very high size.

But a more elegant solution would be to break up the large file in to separate rows.Another advantage of this approach is you can read one chunk at a time and stream vs reading the
entire file in to memory.

If you noticed , there were no new posts for the last few months. The reason is I made a big change in my life.

I moved to Canada !!!!!

It is fall now and I can smell the winter coming. I am sure that I will not like winter :(

well, now I am more or less settled and will continue sharing my knowledge!