On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 11:18 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:18 -0700, shawn wrote:I accidentally deleted alot of email from my IMAP server. I made a copy of the offline copy that evolution makes. 3/4 of my email is only in this backup. How can i convert this backup into Maildir or IMAP format?Is this a current [~3.2] version? If so I'd put together a Python script that recursively walks alls all the files in below "~/.local/share/evolution/mail/{accountId}/folders/{folderName}/cur/" and reads each one to construct an MBOX file of each folder. <http://docs.python.org/library/mailbox.html#mailbox.mbox> <http://docs.python.org/library/email.parser.html> Parser from email.Parser will read a message from a string or a file-handle. The individual files are raw messages.
That *is* Maildir. So if you want to "convert this backup into Maildir" then just copy those individual files from each directory in Evolution's backup, to the appropriate directory in your normal mail store (~/Maildir/ on the mail server, perhaps). If you're using an older version of Evolution where the local storage is mbox, you'll want a script like mb2md to do the conversion to Maildir. http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ -- dwmw2
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