Re: [Evolution] evolution export/save to mbox in error

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 15:08 +0100, wim wrote: 
> Hello to all of you
> ( second request because the first was probably lost do due to much mails )
> First I want to appologise for this mail to all, but I am desperatly
> seeking an answer.
> I want to be able to export my evolution mail which was recently upgraded
> to version 3.2.2 ( within ubuntu package 11.10 ) and now I cannot read
> the raw mail or export to mbox.
> Or can evolution become downgraded to the mbox-style files. Like thunderbird.
> However thunderbird seems slow in reading the mails.

If Thunderbird actually uses MBOX (which seems doubtful).... then that
might be why.  MBOX gets slow with very large mailboxes; it is a *flaw*
in the design of MBOX.  MBOX is fundamentally at odds with large
mailboxes.  

I'd say it is just time to move on.  There are lots of tools for using
maildir just as easily as using MBOX.

... and why are you grousing about underneath Evolution anyway?  If you
really want to do that I'd recommend storing mail in an IMAP server. 

> The mail now is scattered over a lot of files, and sometimes even broken into
> several parts. The earlier version I could get into the mailboxes and
> easily find all the mails in their mbox format. So I was able to read
> the bare mail.
> But now everything is put ino sqlite.

No, it isn't.