Hi everyone,
I used the patch provided by the evolution team
(http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/id=df3495a6ec99d53beeaac6b9a2fde8dfd356c439)
to fix the problem and backported it to the evolution version of ubuntu 12.04
"evolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6". It turns out that only the package
"libevolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6" needs to be updated.
Here is how i proceded.
1. Uninstall libevolution and all related packages
sudo apt-get remove libevolution
1.1 For me other packages were removed : evolution evolution-plugins
libevolution
2. Get the evolution package source
mkdir patch_evolution; cd patch_evolution
sudo apt-get source evolution
3. Apply patch (be sure to download it first)
patch -p0 < patch_libevolution
4. Build evolution's debian packages (some other packages may need to be
installed first)
sudo apt-get -b source evolution
4.1 Here is what I obtained
ls -1sh
total 40M
4,0K evolution-3.2.3
4,0K evolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.changes
704K evolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
96K evolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6.debian.tar.gz
4,0K evolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6.dsc
12M evolution_3.2.3.orig.tar.xz
15M evolution-common_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_all.deb
7,9M evolution-dbg_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
864K evolution-dev_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
748K evolution-plugins_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
556K evolution-plugins-experimental_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
2,8M libevolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
4,0K patch_libevolution
5. install the new libevolution package (be sure to use the file you builded)
sudo dpkg -i libevolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
6. re-install previously removed packages
sudo apt-get install evolution evolution-plugins
I tested this on some of my emails ...
708M test_1.mbox
21M test_3_libev.mbox
... with success
Hope this helps,
Antoine
PS : This should definitely be included in an updated version of the
package in the repository.
** Attachment added: "Patch for the file
evolution-3.2.3/mail/e-mail-folder-utils.c"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/996646/+attachment/3392109/+files/patch_libevolution
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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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