RE: [Evolution] importing multiple mbox files

["Ow Mun Heng" <ow mun heng wdc com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Not Zed [mailto:notzed ximian com]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:41 AM
> To: Jules Richardson
> Cc: Evolution Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] importing multiple mbox files
>
>
>
> 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).

Er.. Can I like  burn the Emails (after exporting from outlook using 
mozilla mail) into a CD and then access the Emails from there 
as is??



> 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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