[Evolution] Re: Converting from MH to Evolution

["Lance A. Brown" <labrown nc rr com>]

Matt Meola <mmeola vericept com> writes:

> Having used MH before, and converted before, here's my recommendation:

> For each message in each folder, pipe it through 'formail' (to insure
> that the headers are sane) and pipe that through a procmail filter that
> just looks like this:

>     :0 w
>     * 
>     ./

> procmail groks Maildirs, so this will fill your IMAP inbox with every
> last bit of mail you have in MH.  Evo can then filter it into the
> appropriate places.

That's a rather large hammer, don't you think?  I'm talking about
300Meg of email in my folders right now and hundreds of messages per
day incoming.  I was hoping to maintain procmail as delivery agent and
use Evo to access it.

--[Lance]