As a post script to this, I tried one of these conversions, and followed the suggestion to change text/plain to text/html. Now Evo crashes when I access it, even if the access is a right click to delete.
I am going to try to delete it with outlook and hope that doesn't crash with it as well. On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:27 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > I don't think Milan has the answer as I see this same behavior when > converting Outlook generated RTF formatted emails to Tasks using > Evolution. > > The behavior I am seeing is that when Evo encounters RTF formatted > messages it converts them to HTML, but displays the the resulting task > as raw HTML. > > IF, as Milan points out, this is because it tags it as text/plain, this > is an evolution bug. > > > > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 05:52 -0500, Milan Crha wrote: > > Hello, > > if the mail states "Content-Type: text/plain", then Evolution shows it > > as plain text. If you change it to "Content-Type: text/html", then it > > will be shown as you expect. That's the reason, I guess. > > Hope that helps, > > Milan > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:31 -0700, Chris Worley wrote: > > > I used instructions like: > > > > > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/moving-outlook-email-data-to-linux-evolution-mail-client.html > > > > > > ...for moving my existing Outlook mailboxes to Evolution. > > > > > > Some messages are mangled: Evolution shows them as raw HTML. For > > > example, Evolution displays the body of an email like ("..." replaces > > > private info): > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> > > > <HTML> > > > <HEAD> > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; > > > charset=us-ascii"> > > > <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version > > > 6.5.7036.0"> > > > <TITLE>...</TITLE> > > > </HEAD> > > > <BODY> > > > <!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> > > > ... > > > > > > > > > Looking at the file evolution is showing, I wouldn't know what would > > > be wrong to look for: > > > > > > ~/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders/INBOX/subfolders/ibox2> > > > more 1730. > > > Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 > > > Received: from ... with Microsoft > > > SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); > > > Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:43:46 -0800 > > > Received: from ... with Microsoft > > > SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); > > > Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:43:46 -0800 > > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 > > > Content-class: urn:content-classes:message > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > Subject: ... > > > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:43:12 -0800 > > > Message-ID: ... > > > Thread-Topic: ... > > > Thread-Index: AcYRsojHxc3xumj1QryYlinnP7vuQA== > > > From: ... > > > To: ... > > > Cc: ... > > > Return-Path: ... > > > X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jan 2006 04:43:46.0441 (UTC) > > > FILETIME=[9D1CF790:01C611B2] > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> > > > <HTML> > > > <HEAD> > > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> > > > <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version > > > 6.5.7036.0"> > > > <TITLE>...</TITLE> > > > </HEAD> > > > <BODY> > > > <!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> > > > ... > > > > > > > > > Note that not all email looks like this... it seems to have occurred > > > to blocks of messages... and only converted messages... no new > > > messages have had this issue. > > > > > > Any idea what's wrong or, more importantly, how to fix it? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Evolution-list mailing list > > > Evolution-list@gnome.org > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > Evolution-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Art Alexion MIS x3075
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