On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 01:52 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
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.
I thought that I had a idea on what you were talking about, but I kinda didn't have a clue on what you were talking about so I took a chance:
So I tried what you said:
Created a folder called TEST
opened up Nautilus into a small window
then opened the TEST FOLDER in Evo
and brought back up Nautilius and dragged that .mbox file into the TEST FOLDER
Wow, that works so much faster than importing!
Now I understand what you keep calling a " MAIL SPOOL" aka the .mbox files.
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