On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 01:52 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I wonder if it was just taking a while (too long) to process them > before showing the list. > > For what it's worth, I didn't bother with using the import features > of > Evolution (when I changed OS installations a year or so ago). I > found > it was sufficient (and less wading through menus and options) to just > drop a mail spool file onto the folder I wanted them to go in (create > a > folder, then drop the mbox file from a file browser onto the folder > name in the list of folders) > > I've just done a quick test now, using 24 meg spool file with some > 11,000 messages, it seems to be importing about 3 messages a second. > > Probably the most painful thing about doing anything on Evolution is > trying to abort a lengthy process. You only seem to be able to abort > a > current little bit of it, it'll just carry on doing the rest. > Clicking > the offline/online button to go offline was the only way I could > abort > this little (little!?) test. I had no trouble deleting the folder > after that. It vanished in a couple of seconds. > I thought that I had a idea on what you were talking about, but I kinda didn't have a clue on what you were talking about so I took a chance: So I tried what you said: Created a folder called TEST opened up Nautilus into a small window then opened the TEST FOLDER in Evo and brought back up Nautilius and dragged that .mbox file into the TEST FOLDER Wow, that works so much faster than importing! Now I understand what you keep calling a " MAIL SPOOL" aka the .mbox files. ============ Thanks, Chris Please send all off list messages to chris@xxxxxxxxxx Fedora 35 Gnome 3 _______________________________________________ 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
