Re: [Evolution] importing multiple mbox files

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

If you just need to access the mail, and not use it as live data, I
would suggest setting up a new account, type 'standard unix mbox spool
or directory", and setting the path to where the folders reside.

It might also be an easier way to import, if evolution will copy the
folder structure when you copy the top-level folders (can't remember if
it does or not).

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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