Re: [Evolution] importing multiple mbox files

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I'd suggest creating the folder structure within Evolution and then moving the mbox files into the appropriate location.

For example, if you create a folder called Inbox/Foo, then you would dump the mbox file into:

~/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/Foo/mbox (the mbox file needs to be named mbox)

Jeff

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 23:26 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:

> 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 
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