Hi Pete - Sorry - forgot to include that this is version 3.6.2
RV ---- Pete Biggs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 21:56 -0500, RSV-RR wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:57:11 -0500 > > Matthew Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 22:10 -0500, RSV-RR wrote: > > > > Is there a way to convert Evolution's msg storage from mbox to > > > > maildir? My wife has a very large amount of mail and it can be very > > > > time consuming and disk intensive to manipulate mbox files, whereas > > > > maildir or MH format seems cleaner. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts about this? Good idea, bad idea? > > > > > > > > > The local mail storage format has been Maildir since version 3.0. > > > > > > > > Thanks for your replies... > > > > Well...it's an interesting twist that it's maildir by default, > > Only if you are using version 3.0 or higher - you've never said what > version you are using. > > > but when > > we recently set up her account (about two months ago) I imported mail > > from Thunderbird, which I think is mbox format. So is it right to > > assume it would take those files and re-import to mbox. Also, it's a > > POP3 account. Does that matter? > > If the mail is directly under "On This Computer" rather than another > account, then it will be stored in the native format - which if you are > using version 3.0 or later will be Maildir. Prior to that version it > will be mbox. > > > > > Actually this raises an interesting question that I never thought > > of...how do I know what format is currently being used? > > There's no direct way from the GUI (the internal storage format is not > usually, nor should it be, of any concern to the user). You need to > look in the Evolution's private folders to see how the mail is stored - > the location of those folders is dependent on the version. > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
