Re: Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?

Robin Laing wrote:

Great Minds! That's exactly what I thought. Now I have to figure out how
to import my evolution mail box and folders to Thunderbird. Wondering if
just a copy would do it?? Couldn't get import to cut it and couldn't
find an extension that would. I've got a pile of emails stored that I
would rather keep.
I just linked /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird to /usr/bin/thunderbird and
it fires up like a champ. Thanks again, Ed.

Having gone through the mess I will try to help.

Evolution does export mail in a TB usable mail box. Select all the messages in a folder, right click and save as to a local mail box.

As an example, I have to use Evolution to access our Exchange server. Before people start saying use Imap or Pop, our IT staff are not allowed to enable these features.

I take my mail from the Inbox and move it to and Export folder. I then select all the mail in the Export server. I then right click and use "save as" and put the messages in
~/.Thunderbird/{default}/Mail/Local/Import.

Why not fire up an imap server (on your own box if you don't need access from multiple places or don't have anything else available).

Take note, in Evolution, you have to mouse click on your home directory before if you don't want it to crash. Then type in the rest of the path.

I then use Thunderbird's filters to sort the mail.

I tried Evolutions filters but I was shocked at how slow it was. Hours to get mail filtered that takes seconds on TB. This could be due to the OWA interface.

I'd blame OWA here. I haven't used evolution for a while but the filters seemed OK when I did, using imap or local mailboxes.

When I moved to Evolution for work, I moved all my mail to Evolution and then setup filters to do what I did in TB. It was to slow to be useful so I moved everything back by saving all the messages in folders that were named the same as the original Evolution folders. I then imported them as described above.

If you have an imap server available (and running fedora you obviously could...), you can have an evolution rule copy your exchange mail over to folders there and subsequently access it with TB or any other imap-aware mailer - even while evolution is still running.

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