On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 11:55 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > What format does Evolution use to store emails in? Of the few folders mine does store locally, it's in maildir. I don't know if that's user-selectable, though. The preferences window even says it's maildir for the default "on this computer" folder, but that folder's not editable (there's only an enable/disable entire folder option for it). I suspect though, that internally it sticks with maildir for storing any mail it's fetched itself. All the local mail folders I see in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/ are maildir. Maildir is a later improvement on MH (according to other authors), so I'll take their word on that and not debate it, but it's a similar scheme of individual files for each message, though without an index file. You can create non-network accounts where it'll read mail files that are already on the drive (something else will have to bring them onto the computer), and then you have a choice of local delivery (no clues in the preferences interface as to what it reads), MH format, maildir format, standard Unix mbox spool directory, and standard Unix mbox spool file. I seem to recall importing old mail spool files into Evolution, years ago, simply by dragging and dropping a spool file onto a mail folder inside Evolution's window, and it automatically handled parsing it. I'm fairly sure that was how I finally moved my old mailspool files from the old Dovecot mail server into the new Dovecot server using maildir. Every mail moving tool I'd looked at seemed to require a computing degree to understand how to drive it. For my mail it accesses through my IMAP server, it doesn't appear to be caching them anywhere that I can see (and I've not asked it to). Seeing how you mentioned satellite internet, that's one of the laggiest systems and you probably are best off pre-fetching all your mail as a batch, whatever protocol you use. Then you're just stepping through your local cache as you read them. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
