Re: [Evolution] Message viewer - Mailtool migration

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> We are migrating our mail client which allows our user to export a
> message to a simple mbox file, which permits to share our message within
> the same projects. We have tons of message files.
>
> How can we use Evolution as a simple mail viewer or .mbox file viewer,
> without having to manually import the message from the File Menu ?

Hmm, "you can't" probably would be the correct answer to this very
question. But don't stop reading yet, maybe the following suits your use
case. :-)


You can create a new mail account, use "Standard UNIX mbox spool or
directory" as Server Type and point it to the dir that holds your mbox
files. This way you can read and share all your existing "message
files".

What you can not do unfortunately, is use them as a *Template*. This is
a long requested feature, I'm afraid. The Drafts feature is kind of
similar, but deletes (actually, marks-for-deletion) the original mail
when editing it. That's the subtle difference between Drafts and
Templates.

I'd suggest you start playing around with this. Hopefully it does what
you expect...


Another related caveat: Evo allows "Editing as new Mail" only for mails
in the Sent folders. Any account can have its own Sent folders. Editing
as new mail of course does not alter or delete the original one, but
this option unfortunately is not available for any arbitrary mail, but
the ones in the Sent folders only.

FWIW, this is a limitation in the UI only, AFAIK. There is no difference
as far as the mails itself are concerned. Evo is capable of editing
*any* mail as new message. Removing this "feature", err... limitation
should be easily possible with a custom patch.

HTH

...guenther


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