From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14011 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Problems incorporating old mail Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:33:26 +0800 Message-ID: <87fx0nbcmh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d3vrld8a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <871vc7s9ug.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276677389 18611 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2010 08:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:36:29 +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 10:36:28 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 1OOo6i-0003xW-VC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:36:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OOo6h-0004Q3-FD for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58619 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OOo4C-0002a0-0t for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOo46-0005Ci-ET for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:33:47 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOo46-0005Cb-3O for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOo44-0002ts-HQ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:33:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 123.121.197.229 ([123.121.197.229]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:33:40 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 123.121.197.229 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:33:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 51 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.121.197.229 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k3oCdUWB65FJenzWtGCrWpOsfFc= 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:14011 Archived-At: Alberto Luaces writes: > 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 Mutt can open them perfectly, so I don't think it's a problem with the exportation. In fact, Evolution stores its messages in mbox format to begin with, and while I started out selecting all the messages in a folder and doing "Save as", that just produced a mbox that was identical to Evolution's own library. It's something that happens sporadically, as I had the problem a while ago, then at some point successfully incorporated by Inbox and Sent folders, plus one or two user-created folders. Now I'm having the problem again. I started emacs with the -Q option, so that it didn't even load gnus.el, but it still wouldn't read the mbox files correctly. What I seem to be seeing is that, for messages with a multipart/alternative MIME type, gnus is showing me all the alternative versions of the first message in the mbox file, and nothing else (though the line-count for the "first message" is accurate for the whole mbox, and that first message takes a bit longer to load, it's definitely reading the whole file). I see the plain text version, an html version, and another…? They differ only in things like URL highlighting and quote markers. I'm still pretty baffled, hopefully something in the above will make a little sense! Thanks again, E > > * 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?