> I need to export a whole slew of directories in Evolution to mbox > files. All I've found is some graphical way to do one directory at a > time.
Well yes, Evolution is a graphical application so it works through the GUI. > > I'm looking for a command to export Evolution directories to mbox files. > > The Evolution profile contains very many directories. > > Any pointers as to how I can achieve this? > Evolution stores its mail in Maildir format so what you need is a Maildir to mbox converter. To be honest most people want to go the other way, but there are some resources for it - in fact the Dovecot wiki has some pointers http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat and includes a perl script that uses formail to do all the work. If you want to use Evolution then there's no command line driven way of doing it. What you will need to do is to create a new "account" in Evolution of type "Standard Unix mbox spool directory" and point it at the directory you want to create the mbox files in. You can then copy the folder contents between the two accounts. As far as I know there's no way of doing a bulk transfer of all mail folders. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
