RE: [Evolution] importing multiple mbox files




-----Original Message-----
From: Not Zed [mailto:notzed ximian com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:41 AM
To: Jules Richardson
Cc: Evolution Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Evolution] importing multiple mbox files



If you just need to access the mail, and not use it as live data, I
would suggest setting up a new account, type 'standard unix mbox spool
or directory", and setting the path to where the folders reside.

It might also be an easier way to import, if evolution will copy the
folder structure when you copy the top-level folders (can't 
remember if
it does or not).

Er.. Can I like  burn the Emails (after exporting from outlook using 
mozilla mail) into a CD and then access the Emails from there 
as is??




On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 23:26 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:

Is there a way I can script the import of mbox files in 
Evolution? The
outport util did a pretty good job of getting all my old mail out of
Outlook, with some fiddling with headers in the few 
thousand messages
needed afterwards.

But of course I had all my old mail organised into seperate folders,
which I'd like to preserve - far as I know the mbox format 
can't store
folder information (someone point me to a spec if I'm 
wrong!), so at the
moment I'm essentially stuck with 70 or so mbox files 
representing my
old email folder structure. Doing 70 imports via the GUI would be
painfully slow!

If I can't script it making use of an Evo utility then maybe I can
create the necessary disk structure and files that Evo 
needs directly,
but I imagine there's metadata there which I can't easily construct
outside of Evo itself...

Any ideas?

cheers

Jules 
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