I was trying to import from kmail. For some wierd reason I had a mixture of formats. Evo found it impossible to read either the maildir folders or the individual entries inside them. The solution turned out to be to make a mbox file and copy all the mails into that, then Evo could import it.
Thanks, anyway Anne On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 1:09 am, Michael Noble wrote: > Anne. > > What was your previos email tool? > Depending on the mail reader, maildir should still keep mail in > text form. The only mailer that I know that does not is Microsoft > Outlook (blaaaa). Even evolution which looks like Outlook keeps > the actual mail in text format in standard mbox format. Evolution > has a lot of other index files but the main file for each folder > is still mbox format. > With evolution, it allows you to import a single file so you just > need to import each of the mail folders that you want. > > Mike > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I wanted to experiment with Evolution, but find that I have mail > > in mbox format, and mail in maildir format - don't ask how or why > > - I don't know. > > > > It seems that mbox is easy to import, but I can't see any way of > > getting the maildir mail into Evo. Has anyone done this? > > > > Alternatively, does anyone know how to create a mbox dir from a > > maildir folder? > > > > Anne > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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