Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 08:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 23:56 -0700, linux guy wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Scott Doty <scott at ponzo.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > And if that doesn't work, you could just use mutt -- it will read the
> > > maildirs and can save them as mboxes. :)
> > 
> > 
> > Where does the "new" evolution keep them ?
> 
> The default for local mail is maildirs. It used to be mboxes. You don't
> say what version of Evolution you're using. Earlier versions had some
> maildir support but it may have been buggy.
> 
> poc
> 

As far as I can see all local evolution stuff is kept currently in the
directory: .local/share/evolution/mail/local_mbox in ones home directory
but it is not in clear text as far as I can find.
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