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.
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uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 23 16:47:03 UTC 2022 x86_64
Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.