Re: [Evolution] Merging Inbox/Outbox files

[William Farmer <wfarmer metamedia us>]

I know it was hosed because all of my email was fine before the upgrade,
and after the upgrade it kept telling me that it couldn't retrieve any
messages. 

I tried importing, but the import takes forever and usually
crashes/hangs without telling me what's going on.

Is there any way to uncorrupt the Inbox and Outbox files? Is it possible
that they are just fine and is there any way to import the files or
uncorrupt them through the command line so that I can see what's going
on?

Each file is about 500 megs in size since it's 4 years of email. I'd
like to be able to recover them.

-William


On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:54 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > /home/wfarmer/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox is the old Inbox
> > /home/wfarmer/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Outbox is the old Outbox
> >
> > On upgrade, I backed up both files to /home/wfarmer/Desktop
> >
> > So where would I copy this file to? I'm not able to do an import through
> > evolution as it comes up with errors, so I'd rather just copy the file
> > over and be done. I'd love to import my old email and recover it, but I
> > can't seem to import this file. 
> >
> > 1) Is this possible? If so, how.
> > 2) How else can I restore this Inbox through the command line?
>
> As has been discussed on this mailing list numerous times in the last
> few days/weeks/months ... you can't copy an mbox file to the current
> Evolution local folders because the format of locally stored mail has
> changed to Maildir.  Not only that, if you don't understand how
> Evolution stores it's internal data, then don't fiddle with it, all you
> are going to do is to make things worse.
>
> If you have an mbox file with mail in, then the best way of importing it
> is to use Evolution's import facility.  If the import comes up with
> errors, then the file is corrupt.
>
> You said it "completely hosed my Evolution client" - what do you mean?
> Do you mean that the binary was corrupt?  Or that it didn't reformat
> your mail boxes correctly?  If the latter, then do you think it might be
> because your old Inbox was actually corrupt and so Evolution wasn't able
> to do the translation?
>
> P.
>
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