Converting Mail from Evolution for Mutt

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:54:54PM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
>Now the question is -- How do I get the mail stored by Evolution into
>Mutt?  Do I just copy the mail file from Evolution to /var/mail/<me>
>and will the mails then be picked up by mutt - can I do this before I
>start using fetchmail? Or is there a better way?

http://email.about.com/cs/evolutiontips/qt/et110103.htm

>Also -- Should I use mbox or maildir -- of which I hear good things?
>Any opinions?

I use maildir. mbox can get slow if you keep lots of mail in a single
box. I'm not sure how many "many" is, it could be in the thousands :-)

/M

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