[Techtalk] Question re Kmail & Evolution

[jennyw]

If you're willing to install an IMAP server on your Linux box, you could 
use OE to copy your messages from Hotmail to IMAP. Then you could copy 
them from the IMAP folders to local folders in Evolution. I find that 
using IMAP as an intermediary for switching e-mail programs works very 
well.

I'm currently using Evolution 1.0.2 on Debian when I'm not using mutt
(against all odds, mutt has become my preferred e-mail program despite how
much I diskliked it initially). It works pretty well ...  I tried earlier
versions, and they were messy to install, but this was pretty easy. What
distribution are you using?

Jen

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:35:46PM -0400, Tabatha Persad wrote:
> 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.
> 
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