Serious Evolution Problem

[wade at wadesmart.com]

10132006 1058 GMT-6

My email is located in 
.evolution/mail/local and then I can see Inbox.sbd

I tried the -f but I receive
& -f /home/wadesmart/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox
Referencing before 1

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Serious Evolution Problem
> From: "Steve Flynn" <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, October 13, 2006 10:14 am
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> On 13/10/06, wade at wadesmart.com <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
>  10132006 0956 GMT-6
> 
> Ok. I backed up my mail - all 6G of it. Now, I tried the mail command but it gives me stuff from 2004, when I first got onto Ubuntu. I read the man files but Im not great with the command line. I typed in mail and it shoes me 20 files with Anacron Jobs written on them. How do I switch to my evolution inbox? 
> 
> Whilst in mail
> 
> d to delete the current email
> n to move to the next one
> q to quit
> 
> As for how to switch to your Evolution mailbox, you will need to determine where Evolution stores this mailbox and you can attempt to read it with 
> 
> mail -f <"/path/to/evolution/mailbox"
> 
> I would have hoped that it was working in ~/mbox but it appears from your surprise at finding housekeeping mail going back to 2004, that it doesn't.
> 
>  Of course, this relies on the fact that evolution stores its mailbox in standard mbox format - you'll need to refer to your Evolution docs determine if this is the case or not.
> 
> -- 
> Steve
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