on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:40:44AM -0500, Abdul Latip (dullatip@angin.com) wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I would like to move from Evolution to Thunderbird.
> Unfortunately, I have got a huge mailbox (> 100MB) with cascaded
> sub-folders. Before I re-envent the wheel; I am wondering; if
> there exists a script or utility that converts Evolution mailbox
> format to Thunderbird format.
Likely they're mutually compatible.
Most 'Nix MUAs use one or more of mbox, Maildir, or mdir mailbox
formats.
- mbox is a single file. man 5 mbox.
- Maildir is a directory with three subdirectories, "new", "cur", and
"tmp".
- mdir is a single directory.
Check docs for both Evo and Thunderbird.
You may want to copy your Evo folders to a new location before testing.
Some mailers create metadata (usually index files) and while I wouldn't
expect anything to break, you might waste time recreating these.
Peace.
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