Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox

[Bharath C J <jairambharath gmail com>]

Thanks everyone for suggestions. I was able to split huge Mbox file
(close 8.5 GB) using gvim...split into 8 smaller files. I took almost
8 hours to do it because of my machine speed. I only hope I have not
lost any mails.

Perhaps it would be great if you guys make something like "Mbox
reaching limit" notification. This will help lot of users... 32 bit
machines. As soon as we see this notification, we can move mails to
different folders from within Evo.

Bharath

> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:54:30 -0430
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox
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> 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
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:36:40 +0100
> From: Matthias Apitz <guru unixarea de>
> To: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>
> Cc: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox
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> El d?a Thursday, November 05, 2009 a las 08:54:30AM -0430, Patrick
> O'Callaghan escribi?:
>
> > 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
>
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> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:22:33 -0500
> From: Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>
> To: Matthias Apitz <guru unixarea de>
> Cc: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Splitting Mbox
> Message-ID: <1257430953 32722 22 camel raker ateb com>
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> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:36 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El d?a Thursday, November 05, 2009 a las 08:54:30AM -0430, Patrick
> > O'Callaghan escribi?:
> >
> > > 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