[Evolution] Accessing folders (not thru Evolution)

[John Harlow <jharlow bravepoint com>]

Prior to switching to the Evolution beta last August, I had for several
years run Eudora Pro, under vmware, using a samba share to store all of
my mailbox folders. Prior to that I used Outlook. Too many times (in the
dark days of Outlook) I suffered problems and lost data when something
would happen to my Outlook database and I could only get at the data via
Outlook (ugh!)

The primary reason I switched to Eudora was so that I would have access
to my email information (and attachments) w/out having to go thru the
email program. Eudora actually stores the mailboxes in an ASCII format
and each attachment is stored as an OS file. It is exceedingly nice to
be able to fgrep thru the mailboxes, open the raw ascii email file and
view the headers, directly copy attachments, delete a bunch of
attachments that I didn't want to hang onto, etc.. 

I would guess that similar functionality has to exist for the Evolution
datafiles, but I can't seem to find any info on directly accessing them.

My question is, what options exist for me to access the data in my
Evolution system directly, w/out having to go thru the application
itself? 

Thanks
John
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