Re: [Evolution-hackers] importers?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

hey aaron, we were really just talking about re-enabling the old
functionality.  since w'ere supposedly in feature freeze.

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Weber wrote:
> Here's what I know bothers the people who I spoke to at LinuxWorld,
> among bugs; all of these I think are already in bugzilla:
> 
> Individual file imports of mbox files copied from Eudora fail all too
> often, although I don't know why; I think possibly because of Windows
> vs. Linux newlines?
> 
> We should have a recursive import of a directory, so that you can
> import from, say, Eudora or KMail or a tree of MBox files without
> doing it one by one. We support single file imports, doing a treeful
> should be easy.
> 
> Addressbook imports, especially from csv files, are basically useless.
> Csv2vcard is not reliable, and isn't in the GUI; it needs to be done
> right and done in a gui-accessible way.
> 
> I can't imagine that any of this is easy, especially parts involving
> Outlook and transferring files across Windows/Linux partitions. But I
> don't know the technical details, just the stuff people complain
> about. :)
> 
> a.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:50 +0800, Not Zed wrote: 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I saw JP mention something about importers being a bitch, whats the
> > status here?  irc keeps booting me and everyone's asleep anyway.
> > 
> > Is this another forgotten feature or something?  Should we re-do them as
> > modules rather than having so much bonobo glue in the middle, or what?
> > 
> >  Michael
> > 
> > 
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