Re: Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-17 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Alberto Luaces writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I did this, and got a maildir folder, but I'm embarrassed to say that I >> don't know how to get these messages into gnus, either. > > For importing a maildir folder, you have to have set up the mail > backend, nnml, as a primary or secondary

Re: Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I did this, and got a maildir folder, but I'm embarrassed to say that I > don't know how to get these messages into gnus, either. For importing a maildir folder, you have to have set up the mail backend, nnml, as a primary or secondary source of mail like this: (add-to-

Re: Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-16 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Alberto Luaces writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I'm still pretty baffled, hopefully something in the above will make a >> little sense! > > Sorry, the only thing that I can think of, as you say that Evolution > stores mail in mbox format, is to try to export your mail in any format > other

Re: Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-16 Thread Alberto Luaces
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I'm still pretty baffled, hopefully something in the above will make a > little sense! Sorry, the only thing that I can think of, as you say that Evolution stores mail in mbox format, is to try to export your mail in any format other than mbox. Is it possible? You might

Re: Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-16 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Alberto Luaces writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I'm having difficulty moving my old mail into gnus, however, in >> particular saving Evolution mailboxes as mbox files and then importing >> them into gnus. Some of the mailboxes have come in fine, others have a >> peculiar error where a mailb

Re: Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-16 Thread Alberto Luaces
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I'm having difficulty moving my old mail into gnus, however, in > particular saving Evolution mailboxes as mbox files and then importing > them into gnus. Some of the mailboxes have come in fine, others have a > peculiar error where a mailbox of several hundred messages w

Problems incorporating old mail

2010-06-15 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Hello, I've more or less moved my entire email/contacts setup into gnus/bbdb, and am loving it -- everything seems to work as expected. I'm having difficulty moving my old mail into gnus, however, in particular saving Evolution mailboxes as mbox files and then importing them into gnus. Some of th