On 2019-02-20 at 03:05 +0000, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: > Tried Milan's suggestion about using the "Standard Unix mbox spool > directory". This did allow me to get my hierarchy of saved folders > over to Evolution. However, each folder and subfolder name now > has .sbd added to it. The name can't be modified and the error > message says that the file doesn't exist. Also the folder can't be > deleted because they are spool files. I have now spent just too much > time on this. Too bad, I liked Evolution, but it just doesn't handle > the importing of saved email folders from other mail clients. Until > that is available, the program is not usable for us. Thanks for the > help though. > > > Bill
The problem is that in this format each folder with emails is stored as a mbox file. And each folder that itself contains subfodler is stored as a filesystem folder. Since you can't have both a file and a folder with the same name, this doesn't allow you to store emails on non-leaf folders. Thunderbird works around this by adding a .sdb suffix to those filesystem folders. If you don't store mail on non-leaf folders, it's trivial to remove those .sdb suffixes. Else, you will need to use a different store format, like maildir. It's easy to convert from this to maildir, but it's not as immediate, as there is an extra step. Best regards _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
