mbox question

Todd Slater dontodd at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 21:31:28 UTC 2006


On 10/30/06, wade at wadesmart.com <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> 10302006 1221 GMT-6
>
> Im looking at my evolution folder. I see the different folders I created
> with my various emails in them.
> The inbox file is the largest of them all. Is every single email that I
> have received stored in that Inbox file and then messages in the
> folders are just linked there?
>
> The reason I as is, Im going to convert this mbox to maildirs and Im
> just wondering, do I do it only to inbox or to every folder or what?

Nope, an mbox is a single file, so each "folder" in your client is a
separate mbox file. So yes, you'd need to convert each mbox/folder to
maildir.

Todd




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