Re: [Evolution] Quick tool to import a directory of mbox-style files

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

I'm not sure that's a good idea because Evolution adds it's own headers
(X-Evolution) to the header when you use it's import feature, copying the
files to the evolution directory may work but there may be problems

Dan, any comments?

Jeff

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Joe Ammond wrote:
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:49:42 -0400
> To: evolution helixcode com
> From: Joe Ammond <jra twinight org>
> Subject: [Evolution] Quick tool to import a directory of mbox-style files
>
> I wanted to import my old ~/Mail directory with 15+ years of stored mail
> into Evolution (a nice stress-test), so I came up with this quick and
> dirty hack to mass-import a directory of mbox-style files and
> subdirectories
> into the specified Evolution folder.  I'm sending it here in case it
> might
> be useful to other Evolution users.
>
> Useage: mbox-import /path/to/evolution/local/foldername.  It reads all
> files and subdirectories, and copies them into the specified folder.  It
> descends into subdirectories and does the Right Thing (I hope).  Each
> mbox file is created as a subfolder of the specified folder, with 
> subdirectories created as sub-subfolders.
>
> Caveats: Only been tested with mbox-style folders.  Will copy any file,
> regardless of whether it's an mbox folder.  Copies, not moves.  Shouldn't
> touch the original files.  Only tested on my machines (RH6.2, Solaris 7).
> YMMV. 
>
> ja.
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> Joe Ammond                                                 
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