Re: [Evolution] Stuck in file file Migration

[Tom Hunter <tom twohunters com>]

> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:59 -0700, Tom Hunter wrote:
>   
> > Hi ...
> >
> > Ok, I am a happy camper again. Akhil's information resolved the
> > migration issue.  Thanks to all. I am now running EVO 2.28. My next
> > issue will be how to merge my TB email back into EVO.   Time now to do
> > some research on this.
> >
> > Thanks All,
> >
> > ... TomH
> >     
>
> Reid Thompson wrote:
>   
> > I believe that TB uses plain mbox files.
> > I tend to keep my evolution local mail in maildir format
> >
> > I think something along the lines of the following conversions have
> > worked for me in the past.  Note that these are moves, the originating
> > file will be empty/removed after the invocation.
> >
> > I generally copy the mbox file to /tmp and use it in the move.
> > Don't forget evolution --force-shutdown first.
> >
> > movemail is part of GNU mailutils package.
> >
> >
> > copy original mbox file to cur.mbox then
> >  movemail  "/tmp/cur.mbox"  "maildir:///tmp/newMaildir"
> >
> >
> > convert from maildir to mbox
> > copy original maildir folder to newMaildir then
> > movemail  "maildir:///tmp/newMaildir"  "/tmp/cur.mbox" 
> >
> >
> > As a quick test, i just copied an old TB Local Folders/Sent file to /tmp
> > and ran
> >  movemail Sent "maildir:///tmp/newMaildir"
> >
> > then
> > mutt -f /tmp/newMaildir
> >
> > and it looks to be fine.
> >
> >     

Tom Hunter wrote:

Thanks for the info ... I have been successful importing (via EVO) the 
TB MBOX format. So my EVO folders are now current .

tks ... tomh