Re: [Evolution] Setting the sender account for a mail composer window started from the command line

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 02:11 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> But starting Evolution again, the local Outbox is empty.

        Hi,
I tried it here. I had Evolution running, and copied eml.mbox file into
~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Outbox/new/
then I switched to Evolution, selected the Outbox - nothing happened,
message was not shown. Then I moved away from the Outbox to another On
This Computer folder and only then Outbox showed (1) and when I
returned back to the Outbox the message was there. On the disk, the
message was moved from new/ to cur/ and renamed to eml.mbox:2,S by
libcamel. It looks like the refresh of the folder is somehow tricky in
the Maildir structure.

On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 03:07 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> And as maildir format is not supported,

Do you mean to import a maildir structure? Not by import, but by
creating an account, which would not make much sense, because you've
the account already available. I know you are aware of these things. :)

> and as mbox requires each message to be in a separate file

Nope, mbox format is one file per folder, it's Maildir, which has one
file per message. The mbox format requires a message separator, which
looks like:

   From user@no.where <some date or such, but not mandatory for libcamel>

Note it's not like the 'From' header, that has additional ':'. If you
recall the bugs about escaping 'From ' with '>' in message text and
what issues it causes, then this is the reason why the escaping is
needed, due to the mbox format.

> Is there a reason that the dialog does not support selecting more
> than one file, and Evolution then importing each file one after the
> other?

I think because you can select vCard, iCalendar, mbox files all
together, but you cannot pick to import vCard into a book, iCalendar
into a calendar and mbox into a mail directory in a single step.

Try what I did above, name the file in the new/ directory without those
flag notices Maildir uses and do the circle of enter-leave-enter the
Outbox folder. It should work. It works similarly when I copy the
message directly into the cur/, but going through the new/ is more
accurate usage.
        Bye,
        Milan