Hey everybody! I can't imagine that I am the first one to run into this. Still I found no solution, neither did I get any kind of response from the Linux Mint forums, so I am asking here.
System info: Mint 19.2 Mate, all updates installed, Kernel latest 5.3; Evolution V.3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (which is the latest available for my Mint 19.2 ootb) As of today (written on Dec 5th, 2019), after an update probably, Evolution refused to start without converting my email storage from mbox to maildir. Since I had no choice anyway, I agreed and started the conversion (I have a backup as of yesterday, luckily!) and waited quite a bit. Yes, it's a single thread conversion, and we are talking about a massive archive here. Once it started, then, I found that not a single mail had been converted. All I got to see were the latest mails received today. Also the local folder containing the backup of the former mbox archive was entirely inaccessible, not a single mail I tried to open showed up, just an error message (roughly translated from German: Failed to open folder, folder cur/<foldername> doesn't exist.). Well I employed my backup and got all my working mbox files back. While using the manual import of Evolution on over 7000 single files is simply impossible, I searched the web for a solution and stumbled over mb2md. Gave it a try, of course. The outcome was just as great as Evolution's conversion itself: The few files it did not skip because of the leading dot, it did not recognize as valid mbox file and skipped them as well (The manual import of Evolution recognizes them though and works correctly on a single file.). It seems to me like Evolution used an own integrated mb2md algorithm, because that would explain the similar outcome. Enough speculation. Do you have any solution for a working batch conversion please? Thanx. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list