[Evolution] Importing large numbers of folders

[Don Bashford <Don Bashford stjude org>]

For the last 10 years, I've used MH, but now that I'm in an IMAP
environment, I can't do that anymore, so I'm trying evolution.  I have
about 300 MH format folders which I'd like to convert to local folders
in Evolution.  Although evolution can import MH folders, the documented
mechanism requires menuing and mousing, etc for each individual folder.
For 300 folders, this is an awful, error-prone chore.

Is there any scripting capacity in evolution that would allow me to
script this task?  I find no mention of such in the user docs.

Alternatively, could someone clue me in on what files/dirs I need to
create via a unix shell script (or perl, etc.)  To accomplish the same
thing?  My efforts so far along this line:

* If you use evo to create a local mail folder, FOLDER, and tell it to
store it's contents in MH format, a dir ~/evolution/local/FOLDER/mbox
containing files 1, 2, 3, ... will be created

* However if you just create such a dir from the unix shell prompt evo
won't "see" it as a folder, and you won't be able to access it.