Re: [Evolution] Importing large numbers of folders

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> 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.

Well, I even would have suggested scripting without you mentioning. ;-)

You are very close: Have a look at that FOLDER and it's contents. You
will need to create the 2 .xml files, as the describe how Evolution
handles this folder.

I would create a MH folder just as you, and use this as a template.

Notes:
- You will not need any mbox.* (note the dot!) files, as they are only
for indexing and will be recreated, if missing.
- You probably want to disable indexing (context menu, Properties) until
you are finished sorting the folders.
- Create a subfolder and see, how they are represented in the FS. Then
you don't need to create all those 300 MH folders on the same level...

...guenther


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