[Techtalk] Question re Kmail & Evolution

[Tabatha Persad]

Hi Travis,

Well I decided to give it another go after reading your email.

Actually Kmail doesn't appear to export at all from what I can see. I 
remembered that I have a folder in my home dir called /Mail and I knew that 
was all Kmail format after having brought it all in from Outlook Express.

So I shut down Kmail and opened up Evolution and just tried to do an import 
with the File Type set to Automatic, since the others were not applicable.

I just did a test on one email folder called XML Stuff.  It had 3 messages in 
it.  The first thing I notice is that I will have to individually import each 
and every one of my mail folders.  Ew.  

And it was a good thing I only tried one folder, because I imagine I might 
have been able to CTRL-select everything.  However, when I sucessfully 
imported the folder into Evolution, for every message it displays below it an 
empty message with nothing in it.  So all my REAL messages are double spaced 
by junk.  Some of my mail folders have in the hundreds of emails, so that 
would really suck to clean up!

Again, I imagine upgrading Evolution from 0.13 to the latest would take care 
of it, but I'm too chicken.  I'll get to know Kmail - it's really not that I 
don't like it, just things feel different... nothing I can't get over!

Thank you for your info, it's what prompted me to at least find out I COULD 
automatically import Kmail, even if it didn't quite jive!

Tabatha

On Friday 12 April 2002 22:21, Travis Casey wrote:
> KMail uses standard Unix mailbox files to hold mail.  It also creates some
> extra files to handle extra information it keeps, but the mail itself is in
> those standard Unix mailbox files.
>
> I haven't used Evolution, so I'm not absolutely sure, but I'd guess that it
> can import Unix mailbox files.