-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/07 11:12, I.E.Broadbent wrote: > I've replaced my old clunker P3 machine running Mandrake10 with a new > shiny box with AMD64 dualcore with Debian. > My mail records on the old machine run to almost half a gig and span
*Only* 512MB? > more than 40 local directories under the inbox and go back quite a few > years. > I presumed that the 'import' routine on Evolution would be able to > import the files for storage and use on the new box.... but it appears > that Evolution will only import from 'other' programmes and not from > it's own older versions. > > I have read some similar responses which say that you need to manually > recreate every directory and hand copy the emails. Surely not? > > Anyone know how to solve this problem? What happens if you cp (or tar/detar) the whole mail tree directly to the new location? (I'd then rm the co-located index files. Evo should then recreate them.) The geeky thing to do would be to turn your P3 into a satellite relay mail server by converting the mbox files to Maildir, then install/config courier-imap, postfix, fetchmail, spamassassin and maildrop. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHRHDxS9HxQb37XmcRAqsFAKCxePj1pMsOyKzqUsV03+C8k98glACgtbjt oVpIkV1nRGWPWc8jZMMFVFU= =Fr/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
