On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 08:06 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
Basically, I imported my emails from CLAWS to Evolution by:
Opening Claws
Selecting all emails in that one mailbox
Clicked the file menu
EXPORT TO MBOX FILE
then imported the emails into Evo by selecting the file and telling EVO that it's a .mbox file type.
But I noticed that when I went to rename the folder in EVO to something else... The folder was suddenly empty. But at the top left of the screen it said there was 1533 emails total in the folder.. I tried to delete the whole folder to reimport, the emails just showed up with a error message saying the directory wasn't empty.
I wonder if it was just taking a while (too long) to process them before showing the list.
For what it's worth, I didn't bother with using the import features of Evolution (when I changed OS installations a year or so ago). I found it was sufficient (and less wading through menus and options) to just drop a mail spool file onto the folder I wanted them to go in (create a folder, then drop the mbox file from a file browser onto the folder name in the list of folders)
I've just done a quick test now, using 24 meg spool file with some 11,000 messages, it seems to be importing about 3 messages a second.
Probably the most painful thing about doing anything on Evolution is trying to abort a lengthy process. You only seem to be able to abort a current little bit of it, it'll just carry on doing the rest. Clicking the offline/online button to go offline was the only way I could abort this little (little!?) test. I had no trouble deleting the folder after that. It vanished in a couple of seconds.