Mbox files are defined as rfc822 mail messages split by a blank line and
a line starting with From_, which is F, r, o, m and a space.
It's possible some of the lines in your mbox file don't follow this
convention, and maybe that's why Evolution is having a hard time parsing
it.
For example, I
If those really are rfc822 mail files, you could probably just
concatenate them together (which would produce an mbox file) and copy
the mbox file to ~/.evolution/mail/local/.
Something like:
cd ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/acct/personal/sub/folders/Saved\ Items/
cat * cache-mbox
mv cache-mbox
That is the first thing I tried, except I didn't have the spaces
between the concatenated files...I'll give it a shot...
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The file command claims my
concatenated file is indeed RFC 822 mail text, but when dumped into
~/.evolution/mail/local it doesn't show up
Hi evolution mailing list
Today I accidently deleted some mail (only about 30 messages) from an
exchange server account. I discovered I have a locally cached copy in
the directory ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/account name/personal/sub
folders/Saved Items/
In that directory there are two binary