Re: [Evolution] Where are evolution email messages in filesystem?

[mickeydog <mickeydog taosnet com>]

Thanks for the 'mutt' tip.
I didn't know about this program.
I installed it and ran it as you suggested and indeed this is would have
been a much better solution than my hacking.

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:31 +0100, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:05 -0700, mickeydog wrote:
>
> > Inbox.sbd is a folder, but Inbox is a file.
> > I can edit it with a text editor.
>
> Not exactly a smart choice. For working on a mbox file, I would suggest
> using a text-only email client which knows how to handle the format. For
> all these tasks, I routinely use mutt (available on most Unix-like
> platforms) which can work easily on a mbox file, e.g.
> mutt -f ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox
>
> Select the message you want to delete, hit 'd', hit 'q' and it's done.