The Precise release is coming close to EOL, so I'm sure some people
(like me) are panicking and trying to migrate their email to new systems
before April. Therefore, I'd like to report how I worked around this
issue in case anyone finds it useful. It's based on a modified version
of the directions in comment #3.
However, if you happen to need a 32-bit version of the fixed
libevolution package, then just install the one I've attached. If you
need a 64-bit version, then AntoineM has built one in comment #4
(although I haven't tested it.) The rest of this is just in case you
need to build your own fixed package.
First of all, here's a direct link to the upstream patch to fix the
issue: [1] the link in AntoineM's post doesn't work anymore; I think due
to a hash collision in Evolution's git history, it goes to the wrong
commit. But this link seems to work for me, for anyone who needs the
patch. However, if it still doesn't work for you, look through their
commit logs for commits during Febuary 2, 2012. The one you want is
called "Bug 667576 - Junk between messages after saving an mbox file."
Second of all, between when Evolution 3.2.3 was released and when the bugfix
was written, the Evolution team appear to have moved their files around. In the
older version, the e-mail-folder-utils.c file is in the "mail" directory
instead of in "libemail-engine." So to patch it I did
cd evolution-3.2.3/mail
patch -p2 <patch_file.diff
Third of all, in order to make the source package build, I had to add the
following lines to evolution-3.2.3/configure.ac:
AM_PROG_AR
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability])
But without the indentation of course. I added them right before line 137.
Fourth of all, I had better luck building the package with the following
commands (instead of apt-get -b):
cd evolution-3.2.3
dpkg-buildpackage -b
Finally, it's not necessary to uninstall anything. All you have to do is
call dpkg -i on your new libevolution package (which should be in the
parent directory to evolution-3.2.3.) It should replace the existing
libevolution package. No other evolution-related packages need to be
uninstalled or reinstalled.
I hope that helps someone!
[1]
https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/patch/?id=df3495a6ec99d53beeaac6b9a2fde8dfd356c439
** Attachment added: "libevolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_i386.deb"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/996646/+attachment/4759045/+files/libevolution_3.2.3-0ubuntu6_i386.deb
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996646
Title:
Evolution mbox export broken
Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Following Ubuntu suggestions and getting rid of Evolution which is
painfully slow on my computer, I am trying to migrate to Thunderbird,
using the "mbox export" feature available in Evolution.
Unfortunately, the feature seems to be broken in Evolution 3.2, as
reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667576.
Short version is: each mail in the exported mailbox encapsulates the
whole mail bundle plus their attachments, which make a few hundred
mails take 1 GiB.
The bug is marked fixed as of Evolution 3.3.5, which has not been
bundled in last Ubuntu update. Evolution team send pack to
distribution provider to include the corresponding patch
(http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=df3495a6ec99d53beeaac6b9a2fde8dfd356c439)
in prior versions of Evolution.
I tried a number of workarounds, including installing a beta
distribution in a VM with a current version of Evolution to use its
export feature but, in addition to being a painfully long process, it
simply does not work as Evolution 3.3.9 does not seem to correctly
handle my 1.4 GiB archive file and miss half the mails bundled. For
the few ones which made it through the archive/restore/export/import
process, the result is perfectly OK though.
Manually exporting thousands of mails (yes, 10+ years ;)) does not
seem reasonnable to me either.
Is there a plan to include this patch to help me and other people migrating
to LTS 12.04 to use this feature?
Thanks by advance!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 8 18:50:32 2012
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (11 days ago)
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