Converting Mail from Evolution for Mutt

[Carthik Sharma]

On 9/9/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:07:45PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > >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 :-)


Thanks, I will try it after reading some more :) 

I've heard good things about maildir, but I use mbox myself.
> I've got a decently powerful laptop, and some of my
> mailboxes contain tens of thousands of messages; the
> ubu-users mailbox, for instance, contains just under 16,000
> messages. It takes quite a while to load in mutt -- maybe 15
> seconds or so (though I've not timed it). Subsequent loads
> don't take long. Saving a message to ubu-users takes no
> time; I gather that appending a message to an mbox file is
> a constant-time operation.


Even with a maildir, mutt used to take some time to read the messages - 
writing was fast. I used to use a maildir+IMAP setup in the past.

So any clues on the best way to get the mail from Evolution into Mutt, vis a 
vis the two routes I have in mind - how do I accomplish this?

Thanks,
Carthik.
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