On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:03:09PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I Googled for "maildir mbox conversion" and got a bunch of hits. One > thing that might cause trouble: the Evo way of representing a folder > hierarchy is non-standard (because AFAIK there is no standard) so you > might have to do it folder by folder.
So after this thread caught my eye (having suffered from mbox corruption one time too many), I decided to convert all of my 'local mail' to maildir format folders. So I did the following: - Added a new account with 'Maildir-format mail directories' - Pointed it at an empty top-level directory. - Did right-click 'Copy..' on the top-level folders under 'On This Computer' and selected the new account as the target. - Deleted the copied folder once I was happy with the result. Now I have everything in maildir format and things like folder updates and searches are peppy again. This took a little bit for the 2+ G of mail I've managed to accumulate, but worked pretty much flawlessly. I tried a couple of the script solutions, but they had about a 90% success rate and I wasn't going to convert all 100+ folders thru mutt (which seemed to be the only other completely robust solution available). John A. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
