Re: [Evolution] Evolution - mbox to maildir

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 22:10 -0500, RSV-RR wrote:
> Hello group -
> Is there a way to convert Evolution's msg storage from mbox to
> maildir?  My wife has a very large amount of mail and it can be very
> time consuming and disk intensive to manipulate mbox files, whereas
> maildir or MH format seems cleaner.
> Any thoughts about this?  Good idea, bad idea?

It is a great idea, and simple to do.  Create a new account of type
maildir.  Drag the mail from the old accounts folders to the new
accounts folders.