Re: [Evolution] Importing from KMail -- Lost Messages

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I can't imagine they should be that different.  Do the messages in question have any lines that begin with "From " inside them (in the raw message)?

Maybe kmail uses/honours "content-location", which evolution doesn't.

I'd be interested to see some example data to work out why it is doing this.

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:10 -0500, Rob Matlack wrote:
> I would like to import my mail from KMail to Evolution. My KMail folders are 
> in MBox format. I have tried simply copying the folders to the correct 
> Evolution location, importing with automatic detection, and importing with 
> MBox selected. All three have the same results--I lose emails. In one folder 
> of about 50 I lost about 12. They seem to come in as blank emails, no body, 
> no headers. I have compacted the folder before importing. I understand that 
> there are different MBox formats.
>
> Any suggestion or will I just have to give up on importing into Evolution? I 
> could convert all the folders to MailDir, but what good would that do?
>
> BTW. I couldn't figure out how to search the archives for this topic.