Re: [Evolution] How to migrate from sylpheed to evolution?

[Hans-Georg Beyer <hans-georg beyer fh-vorarlberg ac at>]

Yes, this is the solution: using sylpheed to get a mbox file.
This can be imported into evolution.

All the other proposals did not work for me (don't know why).

Thanks to all!

Hans-Georg

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:23, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:07 -0500, Alex S Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:57, Hans-Georg Beyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to transform my stored emails from sylpheed format to evolution.
> > > Is there a program/script what can do this automatically?
> >
> > I do not know of a script, but Evolution works with mail in sylpheed
> > format.  Try creating an account with MH-format mail directories and
> > point to your sylpheed directory.  The Import function may even work,
> > but I have not tried it.
>
> Sylpheed will also export to mbox format, I think.