Move mail from Evolution to Pine

Youssef Makki bugzilla at sympatico.ca
Sun Feb 8 21:03:13 UTC 2004


Hi,
I checked evolution and found this:
~/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/ymakki/mbox
Is this the mail file I can use in Pine? If it is, would it be possible
to cat >> several mbox files together?

Thanks


On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 15:24, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Youssef Makki wrote:
> 
> >Is it possible to move all my email from Evolution to Pine?
> >I need a console based client to use over ssh, it would certainly be
> >better if I could set this up in a way such that both clients use the
> >same mail storage folder (they both use mbox right?).
> >Thanks for any advice.
> >
> >  
> >
> Youssef,
> I just checked out on my evolution folder. It uses maildir format. 
> However , I believe it's simple to convert between maildir and mbox. 
> Probably all you need to do is "cat * > fulldir" , to put all the 
> maildir mails in one mbox compliant file called fulldir. I have to warn 
> that I havent tried this , so make backups before trying! All the 
> e-mails on evolution are stored on the evolution folder.
> 
> --
> Pedro Macedo
> 





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