Please describe the problem:
I sometimes need to backup a single email from evolution, and I do this by dragging the message I want to a Nautilus window. This saves an mbox file with the message contents, which is great! I love that that just happened to work. The next step though is opening that message back up to see what it says.

Evolution doesn't seem to handle well when I specify an mbox file on the command line for it to open. In fact, the UI doesn't even start. I would like evo to be able to open an mbox file for me.

Here is my proposal for handling this:

Show the user a dialog box, asking then what to do. "You have specified a mail archive to open. It contains X messages. What would you like to do with it?"

Option 1 (if X = 1, or < 5 or something): Open all these messages in windows so I can view them.
Option 2: Import messages directly to my local Inbox folder.
Option 3: Import messages to a new subfolder of my local Inbox folder.

The current method to do this is to do File -> Import and follow the wizard, but this is not fast enough if I'm just trying to find a certain saved email on my filesystem. What if you add a --import command line argument which opens the wizard immediately with the specified file as a target? All you'd have to do is add an import option to open the contained messages in windows instead of saving them to a folder somewhere and you'd be good to go.

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