[Evolution] importing multiple mbox files

[Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk yahoo co uk>]

Is there a way I can script the import of mbox files in Evolution? The
outport util did a pretty good job of getting all my old mail out of
Outlook, with some fiddling with headers in the few thousand messages
needed afterwards.

But of course I had all my old mail organised into seperate folders,
which I'd like to preserve - far as I know the mbox format can't store
folder information (someone point me to a spec if I'm wrong!), so at the
moment I'm essentially stuck with 70 or so mbox files representing my
old email folder structure. Doing 70 imports via the GUI would be
painfully slow!

If I can't script it making use of an Evo utility then maybe I can
create the necessary disk structure and files that Evo needs directly,
but I imagine there's metadata there which I can't easily construct
outside of Evo itself...

Any ideas?

cheers

Jules