Re: [Evolution] How to use maildir as storage format?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:25 -0400, John Affleck wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:03:09PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I Googled for "maildir mbox conversion" and got a bunch of hits. One
> > thing that might cause trouble: the Evo way of representing a folder
> > hierarchy is non-standard (because AFAIK there is no standard) so you
> > might have to do it folder by folder.
>
> So after this thread caught my eye (having suffered from mbox corruption
> one time too many), I decided to convert all of my 'local mail' to
> maildir format folders. So I did the following:
> - Added a new account with 'Maildir-format mail directories'
> - Pointed it at an empty top-level directory.

Is this within .evolution or somewhere else? I'm thinking of backup
scripts and when you eventually transport your setup to another machine.

> - Did right-click 'Copy..' on the top-level folders under 'On This
> Computer' and selected the new account as the target.
> - Deleted the copied folder once I was happy with the result.
>
> Now I have everything in maildir format and things like folder updates
> and searches are peppy again.
> This took a little bit for the 2+ G of mail I've managed to accumulate,
> but worked pretty much flawlessly. I tried a couple of the script
> solutions, but they had about a 90% success rate and I wasn't going to
> convert all 100+ folders thru mutt (which seemed to be the only other
> completely robust solution available).

Sounds good John. I'm tempted to try it. Perhaps you'd like to add this
to the FAQ, say in the Interoperability section (somewhere around
http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_import_my_emails_from_KMail_to_Evolution.3F).

poc