Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 16:53 +0530, Bharath C J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 3 folder which are more than 2.0GB and I am unable to access
> them... including my 'sent' folder. When ever I send a mail I get
> error -
>
> Error while performing operation.
> Failed to append to mbox:/home/bharath/.evolution/mail/local#Sent:
> Cannot get folder `Sent': Value too large for defined data type
> Appending to local `Sent' folder instead.
>
> I am not a techie... I tried formail...gplsit and other scipts to
> split the Mbox... but have not been successful.
>
> Please guide me to split Mbox in a simple way.

mbox folders are just text files with the messages concatenated one
after the other. You can split them with any text editor (vi, emacs,
nedit, kate, ...). Take a look at one of them and it will obvious how to
do it. Just edit the file, move to a point say half-way through, put the
cursor just before the next message, copy everything from the beginning
up to that point, open a new file mbox1 and paste, remove the copied
material from the original, save the remainder as mbox2.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

poc