On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 01:16 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > > Approach #1, > migrating local storage from mbox to maildir format. With maildir I > have > heard about two issues, > > * Not able to create subfolders under INBOX - > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536240 . I hadn't noticed the above, so I guess it's a non-issue for me
What is the second issue? > > Approach #2, > Migrate from a single mbox file per folder to mbox per email. Srini > mentioned an advantage that this would avoid the file renames that > maildir does. I think this is much like how other remote providers in > evo store the email. You still have a filename per email right? What naming convention would be used? > > I thought of bring this in this list to gather more opinions to choose > the right one. The approach #2 seems a better one as we are choosing a > way for storing the messages internally in evo. Are we missing to see > anything while we choose the second one ? > > One advantage which I see with #1 is that its a standard way. Would Evo provide a mechanism to migrate/convert a mailbox/folder with this format to a mailbox/folder with a standard format? I.E. Currently, dragging a folder in one format to an account in a different format performs the proper migration to the new account's folder format. Or would it be up to the user to do something like for file in `ls *mbox` do movemail $file maildir:///tmp/maildr done if they wanted to migrate to standard format? > > Thanks, Chenthill. _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
