Re: [Evolution] importing email folders

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:36 -0700, JD wrote:
> How can I import email folders from TBird so that
> the messages in each folder end up in an evolution
> directory named same as the folder name?

Why should it matter what the directory name is in the internal
evolution data store?  If you want the folders in the mailbox listing to
be specifically named, import the mail then move things around.

> Also, since I have a gmail account, I would like
> all the subsequently created directories to live
> under 
>
> /home/jd/.evolution/mail/imap/jd1008 imap gmail com:993/folders
>
> The current Evolution menus for importing TBird mail folders does 
> not provide for this, at least not that I could see.

Since you are using IMAP, then surely the easiest, and probably only,
way is to import the mail into gmail, then everything will appear where
you want them to. You will not get very far, and possibly break things,
by putting mail directly into the Evolution IMAP cache copy of the mail
that actually resides on a server.

P.