Re: [Evolution] Merging Inbox/Outbox files

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

And stop top posting ...

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:29 -0400, William Farmer wrote:
> I'm not able to run rpm -q evolution. It tells me
>
>
> wfarmer wfarmer:/opt$ rpm -q evolution
> package evolution is not installed

It's Ubuntu, it doesn't use RPM, I'm not surprised it doesn't produce
anything useful.

> I tried to create a new account and add a mailbox, but then it was
> asking me for SMTP information. Do I have to re-enter the same account
> for this?

Enter the SMTP information for your ISP - it actually doesn't really
matter, you won't ever be using the information to send mail.

> Also, someone else

That would be me ...

>  asked if they looked like mbox files. I have no idea
> how to check for that.

Do the files look like lots of mail messages one after the other?

If you do 'file Inbox' what does it say?

P.