Converting Mail from Evolution for Mutt

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:44:53PM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
>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?

Check the linkn in my first reply.

/M

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