Public bug reported: 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) ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996646 Title: Evolution mbox export broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/996646/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
