From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14010 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Problems incorporating old mail Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:41:27 +0200 Message-ID: <871vc7s9ug.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87d3vrld8a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276674154 7313 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2010 07:42:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:42:34 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 16 09:42:32 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOnGZ-00068U-Mv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:42:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OOnGY-0005f3-Fa for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55755 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OOnGA-0005e0-3u for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOnG9-0004rH-0f for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOnG8-0004r5-NW for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOnG7-0005zt-Ba for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from eps142.cdf.udc.es ([193.144.52.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from aluaces by eps142.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:42:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: eps142.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bsbv9HdRir7u1693t4GmFwWalzQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14010 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I'm having difficulty moving my old mail into gnus, however, in > particular saving Evolution mailboxes as mbox files and then importing > them into gnus. Some of the mailboxes have come in fine, others have a > peculiar error where a mailbox of several hundred messages will be read > as a nndoc group of six or seven messages: 400 messages will get crammed > into one "message", with a couple of stragglers left over. Just a couple of ideas: * What happens if you try to open those mbox files with say, mutt in order to see if the Evolution exporter is to blame? mutt -f mbox * Maybe you don't need to export the mailboxes at all. For example, when I was using Kmail, it stored the messages in maildir format by default. Could it be the same for Evolution? -- Alberto