I wanted to import my old ~/Mail directory with 15+ years of stored mail into Evolution (a nice stress-test), so I came up with this quick and dirty hack to mass-import a directory of mbox-style files and subdirectories into the specified Evolution folder. I'm sending it here in case it might be useful to other Evolution users. Useage: mbox-import /path/to/evolution/local/foldername. It reads all files and subdirectories, and copies them into the specified folder. It descends into subdirectories and does the Right Thing (I hope). Each mbox file is created as a subfolder of the specified folder, with subdirectories created as sub-subfolders. Caveats: Only been tested with mbox-style folders. Will copy any file, regardless of whether it's an mbox folder. Copies, not moves. Shouldn't touch the original files. Only tested on my machines (RH6.2, Solaris 7). YMMV. ja. -- Joe Ammond jra twinight org
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