[Evolution] Importing from KMail -- Lost Messages
Not Zed
notzed@ximian.com
Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:55:35 +0800
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Just for everyones info, Rob sent me a test file which wasn't "working".
Infact, it did import every message, it is just that most messages are
marked as deleted.
The messages in question have a X-Mozilla-Status header entry with bit 3
set, which the evolution importer reads a 'expunged', and translates
into the evolution 'deleted' flag.
So the behaviour doesn't seem that unreasonable to me.
There is one blank message but that is already in the file as two "From
" lines in sequence.
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:10 -0500, Rob Matlack wrote:
> I would like to import my mail from KMail to Evolution. My KMail folders are
> in MBox format. I have tried simply copying the folders to the correct
> Evolution location, importing with automatic detection, and importing with
> MBox selected. All three have the same results--I lose emails. In one folder
> of about 50 I lost about 12. They seem to come in as blank emails, no body,
> no headers. I have compacted the folder before importing. I understand that
> there are different MBox formats.
>
> Any suggestion or will I just have to give up on importing into Evolution? I
> could convert all the folders to MailDir, but what good would that do?
>
> BTW. I couldn't figure out how to search the archives for this topic.
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Just for everyones info, Rob sent me a test file which wasn't "working".<BR>
<BR>
Infact, it did import every message, it is just that most messages are marked as deleted.<BR>
<BR>
The messages in question have a X-Mozilla-Status header entry with bit 3 set, which the evolution importer reads a 'expunged', and translates into the evolution 'deleted' flag.<BR>
<BR>
So the behaviour doesn't seem that unreasonable to me.<BR>
<BR>
There is one blank message but that is already in the file as two "From " lines in sequence.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:10 -0500, Rob Matlack wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I would like to import my mail from KMail to Evolution. My KMail folders are </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in MBox format. I have tried simply copying the folders to the correct </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Evolution location, importing with automatic detection, and importing with </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">MBox selected. All three have the same results--I lose emails. In one folder </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of about 50 I lost about 12. They seem to come in as blank emails, no body, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">no headers. I have compacted the folder before importing. I understand that </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">there are different MBox formats.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Any suggestion or will I just have to give up on importing into Evolution? I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">could convert all the folders to MailDir, but what good would that do?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">BTW. I couldn't figure out how to search the archives for this topic.</FONT>
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