Trying to mount archived mbox file from cdrom in folder of evolution profile

[geoffrey froner]

What I did:

My friend had several thousand(!) emails in Outlook Express and she wanted
to move to Linux.
I Winzipped the emails and then unzipped them in XP on a dual boot machine.
Next I installed Thunderbird.exe, and, slick and easy, imported the existing
files.  We could just leave them on XP, or, in your case, on a CD and read
when desired.  Or we could launch Linux (Ubu) and, using Evolution, or TB,
import the files across systems for more permanent access.

I hope this works for you (and anyone else with this problem).  Besides
being buggy, Outlook makes it as difficult as possible to import/export
email files.

Cheers,

Geoffrey



On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:15 PM, John Toliver <john.toliver at gmail.com>
wrote:

> what I'm trying to do:
>
> Place a cdrom with my stored emails from the previous year into my
> drive and have it appear in my evolution profile.  This would allow me
> to browse them and look for information then close the folders and
> pull the CD out.  I don't want to copy the whole mbox file back into
> the profile for evolution to be able to read it.
>
> What I've tried so far:
> I've been able to copy a simple mbox file into the evolution profile
> and have it show up, and evolution will even recognize a link to the
> file BUT I can't make a link from a mounted volume like a cdrom.
> Also, when I place the test archive on a flash drive, evolution tries
> to read it and then gives up saying it can't lock the file which means
> I can't even open an archive sitting on a USB flash drive with rw
> ability (formatted as fat32).
>
> I just want a clean way of being able to add my old email file
> structure when I need to, and then pull it out without having to make
> space for a few hundred MB of emails.
>
> Alternatively if evolution can be made to look at the cdrom drive that
> would be great also.
>
> Any ideas would be great.
>
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