Pete Biggs <pete <at> biggs.org.uk> writes: ... > Revert to mbox? You can sort of do it, but why? (You need to create a > new account within Evolution of type mbox and then copy all your mail > there, but new mail will still be put in the local Maildir files when it > arrives - there's no way to change the format of the default "on this > computer" folders.) > > If you want to export to mbox, then instructions on doing it are in the > help system i.e. under Help -> Contents -> Data Migration -> Exporting > data from Evolution -> Exporting mail data. > > Basically, you select the mail you want to export (use Ctrl-A to select > everything in a folder), then do File -> Save as mbox. Seems to work > fine for me. > ... > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list <at> gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > >
I have recently fond that I have the same issue : exporting to mbox as you describe does not work properly. It creates an homongous file of several GB. For instance : one of my local folders has 398 messages and the storage space in .local/share/evolution/mail/local/.mylocalmail/cur takes 31MB but the mbox file written when selecting all messages and saving as mbox takes 6.7 GB !!! I'm seeing people struggling with this since Ubuntu 10.10 ! Can nothing be done ? I was used to backup my e-mail every 6 months in an mbox file (as was the native storage for previous versions of evolution) and storing this on a file server. I was sort of a convenient 1 file for 1 period and 1 mailbox format. Now his has become impossible. I started writing a small python program to collect the files in the 'cur' directories until I noticed that these are not directly in mbox format as well ... there is some extra information and the From line is not at the beginning of the message. I would be grateful for any help I can get on this. Frederic _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
