Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Evolution mbox export broken
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Following Ubuntu suggestions and getting rid of Evolution which is
painfully slow on my computer, I am trying to migrate to Thunderbird,
using the "mbox export" feature available in Evolution.
Unfortunately, the feature seems to be broken in Evolution 3.2, as
reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667576.
Short version is: each mail in the exported mailbox encapsulates the
whole mail bundle plus their attachments, which make a few hundred
mails take 1 GiB.
The bug is marked fixed as of Evolution 3.3.5, which has not been
bundled in last Ubuntu update. Evolution team send pack to
distribution provider to include the corresponding patch
(http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=df3495a6ec99d53beeaac6b9a2fde8dfd356c439)
in prior versions of Evolution.
I tried a number of workarounds, including installing a beta
distribution in a VM with a current version of Evolution to use its
export feature but, in addition to being a painfully long process, it
simply does not work as Evolution 3.3.9 does not seem to correctly
handle my 1.4 GiB archive file and miss half the mails bundled. For
the few ones which made it through the archive/restore/export/import
process, the result is perfectly OK though.
Manually exporting thousands of mails (yes, 10+ years ;)) does not
seem reasonnable to me either.
Is there a plan to include this patch to help me and other people migrating
to LTS 12.04 to use this feature?
Thanks by advance!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 8 18:50:32 2012
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (11 days ago)
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