Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:36 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃa Thursday, November 05, 2009 a las 08:54:30AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribiÃ:
>
> > 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.
> ...
>
> Would be nice if there would be a tool which also keeps the threads in
> one file; I know I could do it with 'mutt' (thread sorting the Mbox,
> tagging from top to down certain messages and saving them), but a cmd
> line tool would be better. 
>
> I will run into the same 2GByte trouble too, because I'm keeping with a
> filter any incoming message in a local folder 'backupIncoming' because our
> Exchange server is emptying the trash every now and then :-(
>
>       matthias

perhaps convert your backup folder to maildir format