Right, in a fit of alcohol induced madness I have decided that after about 5 years of computing with SuSE I should give something else a try.
I had a Ubuntu Virtual Machine running for a bit and was pretty impressed with it so I thought (again remember here I had been drinking) why not just nuke / (leaving /home intact) and install it.
So far most things seem to be working quite well, there is however one slight gotcha.
For some reason kmail on SuSE seemed to be saving my messages in two formats.
Inbox and a few others are a single large file that Evolution seems quite happy importing. But some other folders (including my ALUG folder and more importantly my "Sent Items" are in a format whereby each message is an individual file in a folder called "Sent-Items" and then within that I have "cur" "new" and "tmp" The Messages are all in "cur" presumably because they are read, the filename is composed of some random looking number like "1032089908.1918.F3H0:2,S"
How do I import these messages, Evolution lets me select a single one in the import file dialogue, but I can't select them all.
Many Thanks Wayne
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Right, in a fit of alcohol induced madness I have decided that after about 5 years of computing with SuSE I should give something else a try.
I had a Ubuntu Virtual Machine running for a bit and was pretty impressed with it so I thought (again remember here I had been drinking) why not just nuke / (leaving /home intact) and install it.
So far most things seem to be working quite well, there is however one slight gotcha.
For some reason kmail on SuSE seemed to be saving my messages in two formats.
Inbox and a few others are a single large file that Evolution seems quite happy importing. But some other folders (including my ALUG folder and more importantly my "Sent Items" are in a format whereby each message is an individual file in a folder called "Sent-Items" and then within that I have "cur" "new" and "tmp" The Messages are all in "cur" presumably because they are read, the filename is composed of some random looking number like "1032089908.1918.F3H0:2,S"
That's IMAP...
How do I import these messages, Evolution lets me select a single one in the import file dialogue, but I can't select them all.
I reckon you need to set up an IMAP account in evolution, pointing to the IMAP on the SuSE box, and drag and drop them across. You'll need to create the folders first, I suspect.
Cheers, Laurie.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:15:17AM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Right, in a fit of alcohol induced madness I have decided that after about 5 years of computing with SuSE I should give something else a try.
I had a Ubuntu Virtual Machine running for a bit and was pretty impressed with it so I thought (again remember here I had been drinking) why not just nuke / (leaving /home intact) and install it.
So far most things seem to be working quite well, there is however one slight gotcha.
For some reason kmail on SuSE seemed to be saving my messages in two formats.
Inbox and a few others are a single large file that Evolution seems quite happy importing. But some other folders (including my ALUG folder and more importantly my "Sent Items" are in a format whereby each message is an individual file in a folder called "Sent-Items" and then within that I have "cur" "new" and "tmp" The Messages are all in "cur" presumably because they are read, the filename is composed of some random looking number like "1032089908.1918.F3H0:2,S"
That's IMAP...
IMAP is a transfer protocol, not a storage protocol.
It looks like Maildir. maildir2mbox exists. Or something like mutt can read it and then save it to an mbox for you.
J.
Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:15:17AM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Right, in a fit of alcohol induced madness I have decided that after about 5 years of computing with SuSE I should give something else a try.
I had a Ubuntu Virtual Machine running for a bit and was pretty impressed with it so I thought (again remember here I had been drinking) why not just nuke / (leaving /home intact) and install it.
So far most things seem to be working quite well, there is however one slight gotcha.
For some reason kmail on SuSE seemed to be saving my messages in two formats.
Inbox and a few others are a single large file that Evolution seems quite happy importing. But some other folders (including my ALUG folder and more importantly my "Sent Items" are in a format whereby each message is an individual file in a folder called "Sent-Items" and then within that I have "cur" "new" and "tmp" The Messages are all in "cur" presumably because they are read, the filename is composed of some random looking number like "1032089908.1918.F3H0:2,S"
That's IMAP...
IMAP is a transfer protocol, not a storage protocol.
It looks like Maildir. maildir2mbox exists. Or something like mutt can read it and then save it to an mbox for you.
All true, I meant that!
It's definitely maildir. Sorry for the confusion...
Cheers, Laurie.
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:38 +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
All true, I meant that!
It's definitely maildir. Sorry for the confusion...
Yes it is, I discovered that shortly after posting.
Cheers everybody for all your replies.
The really annoying thing was that I could read all over Google about how Evolution supports maildir but nothing (including the built in help) actually says how to import them.
After a lot of searching I started thinking about the last places I'd expect to see it and found the maildir option as an incoming mail server in the new account dialogue. So then I created another account pointing at my old maildir and then copied the messages to the new folders.
I would have preferred to keep the maildir format as I think it's a bit better. But without setting up two accounts (one for the pop server and one for the maildir) I see no obvious way to do that.
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