shifting emails

[Andrew Mason]

This might help
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/10/1446217

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:08:52 pm Denise Tzumli wrote:
> After a couple of disasters with my computer I'm setting up a backup
> routine.
>
> Current environment is Ubuntu.
>
> I've been trying to do back up this evening, some has worked, some not,
> but I will get there.
>
> I'm having difficulties with email handlers. The default email in Ubuntu
> is Evolution, which I don't like for various reasons, but it took me a
> few weeks to install thunderbird.
>
> Unfortunately I do not know how the Evolution email handling system works.
> Mozilla Thunderbird is very similar to Netscape communicator 4. Each
> email folder has 2 files associated with it. One which can get quite
> big, no extension to the name, holds the actual emails, and the other
> the .msf file is the local index file associated with this.
>
> I like Mozilla because I can do as I did with Netscape, file my emails
> by month, and after a couple of months remove them to a cd. I used to
> index them with Google spindle, not sure how I'll go about that -
> problem for later, after successful set up and backup.
>
> What I would like to do is just move my emails from the evolution folder
> to the thunderbird folder. It could be that it would "Just Work", but
> having spent great time and effort getting bpalogin to work, and
> installing Thunderbird, don't want to mess things up.
>
> Which of the 3 evolution files equates to the .msf file? I suspect it
> could be .cmeta (perhaps msf = meta summary file), but 124 bytes is very
> small compared to 4.1 MB of emails.
> Any suggestions?
>
> > /home/denise/.evolution/mail/local/april07	4.1MB plain text document
> > /home/denise/.evolution/mail/local/april07.cmeta	124 bytes unknown
> > /home/denise/.evolution/mail/local/april07.ev-summary	  32.4Kb unknown
> > /home/denise/.evolution/mail/local/april07.ibex.index   459.0 Kb unknown
> > /home/denise/.evolution/mail/local/april07.ibex.index.data 450.2 KB
> > unknown
> >
> > /home/denise/.mozilla-thunderbird/2tn6r9om.default/Mail/Local
> > Folders/Drafts	5 Kb  plain text document
> > /home/denise/.mozilla-thunderbird/2tn6r9om.default/Mail/Local
> > Folders/Drafts.msf	2.5Kb plain text document
> > /home/denise/.mozilla-thunderbird/2tn6r9om.default/Mail/Local
> > Folders/Inbox	269.7Kb plain text document
> > /home/denise/.mozilla-thunderbird/2tn6r9om.default/Mail/Local
> > Folders/Inbox.msf	11.1kb plain text document