As in get them from the old Inbox/Outbox files and import them to evolution.
They are no longer on the original email server. This is a POP3 account so the emails were downloaded and saved to the Inbox/Outbox files. I'll try the add standard mbox spool file to see if that works. We'll see what happens. -William On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:07 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 08:59 -0400, William Farmer wrote: > > I know it was hosed because all of my email was fine before the upgrade, > > and after the upgrade it kept telling me that it couldn't retrieve any > > messages. > > By 'retrieve' do you mean get the messages from a server or just access > the messages? > > > I tried importing, but the import takes forever and usually > > crashes/hangs without telling me what's going on. > > Is there any way to uncorrupt the Inbox and Outbox files? Is it possible > > that they are just fine and is there any way to import the files or > > uncorrupt them through the command line so that I can see what's going > > on? > > Each file is about 500 megs in size since it's 4 years of email. I'd > > like to be able to recover them. > > If it is an MBOX you can Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts -> Add ... > and create a standand mbox spool file / directory and point it to where > the old mailbox data is. Then you should be able to access the mailbox > and move the messages. > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
