On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 10:31, Don Bashford wrote: > For the last 10 years, I've used MH, but now that I'm in an IMAP > environment, I can't do that anymore, so I'm trying evolution. I have > about 300 MH format folders which I'd like to convert to local folders > in Evolution. Although evolution can import MH folders, the documented > mechanism requires menuing and mousing, etc for each individual folder. > For 300 folders, this is an awful, error-prone chore. > > Is there any scripting capacity in evolution that would allow me to > script this task? I find no mention of such in the user docs. > > Alternatively, could someone clue me in on what files/dirs I need to > create via a unix shell script (or perl, etc.) To accomplish the same > thing? My efforts so far along this line: > > * If you use evo to create a local mail folder, FOLDER, and tell it to > store it's contents in MH format, a dir ~/evolution/local/FOLDER/mbox > containing files 1, 2, 3, ... will be created
true... however, if it is a subfolder of a folder, then you'll have the structure: ~/evolution/local/FOLDER/subfolders/SUBFOLDER/mbox > > * However if you just create such a dir from the unix shell prompt evo > won't "see" it as a folder, and you won't be able to access it. right... you also need to create a folder-metadata.xml file (just copy the one from ~/evolution/local/Inbox) and a local-metadata.xml file with the xml to describe that the folder is in MH format. Probably just create a mh folder in Evolution and copy that xml file around to each new folder you create in the shell. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
