GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 657349
How to to migrate messages manually after mbox to Maildir migration?
Last modified: 2011-09-07 08:16:34 UTC
This continues discussion of problems brought up in bug #657008. Scenario: The migration failed because of a corrupted summary (#655263, solved after 3.0.2). So how can I fix that up? I was suggested to just import that from the backed up mbox files. But having a lot of messages I cannot check if every message was migrated correctly. To me it looks like that Evolution is doing some consistency checks every now and then. Is that related? So how can I continue the migration process for certain folders. There should be a standalone tool or some (advanced) option. I also cannot delete the Maildir folders having already worked with Evolution so there are new messages already saved in these folders not being in the backup mbox files.
This looks rather like a question for a mailing list than actually a bug.
The easiest way is probably this: a) in Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts enable the mbox user@local account, which was created during the migration and which consists of the exact copy of your folders before migration b) choose the folders you want to copy messages from c) select messages and copy them to the corresponding folder under On This Computer. You can either sort messages by date (with Group by threads disabled) in both folders and select only missing message, or just copy whole folder content into the new locations and then select all messages and choose Message->Remove duplicate messages menu option to clean-up from duplicates. As Andre said, this is rather a mailing-list question, than a bug report, thus I'm closing it.