On Friday 31 January 2003 12:54 pm, Melvin Dave P. Vivas wrote:
> > > Is there a way of exporting all my mail from Evolution to Sylpheed?
> >
> > Import the mbox files that evolution uses. That is possible in Sylpheed.
> >
> > The mbox files are in ~/evolution/local directory. Inside that directory
> > are folders to separate maiboxes (Inbox, Sent, etc...) and inside those
> > directories are the mbox files.
i have a very large number of mailboxes (some mbox, some maildir, mboxes
are the ones that don't change much, maildir are the ones that have a lot
of traffic).
i also have a lot of filter rules to pre-filter the mail into the right
mailboxes.
if you have a similar situation, i would suggest:
1. create a temporary mailbox in evolution. this will later hold ALL your
email. that way, you import from one one mailbox. the temporary
should be mbox format for simplest conversion. i have *no* idea
how you'd convert mh or maildir :). note: i've had problems before
with copying files from maildir to mbox or mbox to maildir (i forget
which one it was exactly). evolution would get confused and crash.
i think this happened only with really huge mailboxes though.
because of this possible instability, back up your entire evolution
directory before doing any of this. i've had *other* filesystem
problems (not caused by evolution) where instability in kmail once
corrupted all the kmail config files and some other kde config files
so that kde wouldn't start :).
2. for all your real mailboxes, copy all the mail into the temporary.
3. you've now got one really huge mailbox. copy the mailbox
to somewhere that sylpheed can see it.
4. start sylpheed and import from the big mailbox. or i suppose you could
just copy the big file into sylpheed's inbox file and start sylpheed.
5. in sylpheed, create all your mailboxes and the filters that decide where
things go. periodically select everything in inbox and run the filters
manually :).
tiger
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