Evolution mbox export broken
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Following Ubuntu suggestions and getting rid of Evolution which is painfully slow on my computer, I am trying to migrate to Thunderbird, using the "mbox export" feature available in Evolution.
Unfortunately, the feature seems to be broken in Evolution 3.2, as reported here: https:/
The bug is marked fixed as of Evolution 3.3.5, which has not been bundled in last Ubuntu update. Evolution team send pack to distribution provider to include the corresponding patch (http://
I tried a number of workarounds, including installing a beta distribution in a VM with a current version of Evolution to use its export feature but, in addition to being a painfully long process, it simply does not work as Evolution 3.3.9 does not seem to correctly handle my 1.4 GiB archive file and miss half the mails bundled. For the few ones which made it through the archive/
Manually exporting thousands of mails (yes, 10+ years ;)) does not seem reasonnable to me either.
Is there a plan to include this patch to help me and other people migrating to LTS 12.04 to use this feature?
Thanks by advance!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 8 18:50:32 2012
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (11 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.