Re: [Evolution] imap and mh folders

["Andrea Dell'Amico" <adellam link it>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:57:50 -0500
Dan Winship <danw helixcode com> wrote:

> > The problem for me is that I have 300+ MB of mail in mh format, and
> > without a conversion tool a working imap is the only chance I have to
> > switch to evolution.
>
> OK, so I just whipped up this MH -> evolution migration script
> (untested):
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd ~/Mail
> for folder in `find . -type d -print | sed -e 's:^./::'`; do
>       test $folder = . && continue
>       evdir="~/evolution/local/"`echo $folder | sed -e 's:/:/subfolders/:g'`

This has to be

evdir="${HOME}/evolution/local/"`echo $folder | sed -e 's:/:/subfolders/:g'`

because the "~" isn't expanded.

>       mkdir -p $evdir
>       cat > $evdir/folder-metadata.xml << EOF
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <efolder>
>       <type>mail</type>
>       <description>$folder folder</description>
> </efolder>
> EOF

Add:

touch $evdir/mbox

otherwise packf asks for confirm. That's annoying if you have some hundred
folders.

>       packf +$folder -file $evdir/mbox
> done

After that it works, thanks. But the problems are not finished :-). If I try to
start evolution after that, it hangs. It writes one "mbox.ibex" file than hangs
on a write:

--> strace -p 20522
write(27, "\300\264\20\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\334w\n\10\330\265\20\10"..., 28

I have ~60 folders with tenth of subfolders each. If I move the evolution
directory tree for my folders on another directory and than copy one "main"
folder at a time in the right position, evolution starts. It's a slow
process :-).


> -- Dan

ciao
andrea