30th April 2017, 4:23
Thanks Rocky.
Yesterday after my post, my impatient curiosity got the better of me, so i decided to experiment with this [but for now only] in one of my Maui VMs [running in my Maui Host OS, of course]. So far i have successfully imported into that VM's Evo, my TB's Contacts, & Lightning's Calendar & Tasks.
The current major challenge though is the Email. It continues to irritate & amaze me that just like with my original testing a few years ago, Evo Devs still have not provided a dedicated import tool of TB's emails. Bonkers.
Based on myriad online How To's [eg, http://gaveen.owain.org/2007/07/howto-mi...rd-to.html ] which blithely instruct that one can simply effect the migration via copying all the Mbox files over from TB to Evo, only after wasting many hours did i eventually discover that in fact Evo stopped also using Mbox, & changed to Maildir, quite a long time ago, hence all those guides now are rubbish.
I discovered http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ & https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/mb2md/ ["A Perl script that takes one or more Mbox format mailbox files in a directory and convert them to Maildir format mailboxes"], & that this pgm is in our Repo, so now i am trying to deduce how to go about doing this.
Changing PIMs / email clients should not be this hard!! [& especially so, given that even after all this effort & time, even if i do succeed in importing the emails, i might then decide that Evo's behaviour & capabilities are still not for me, ie, staying with TB remains a real possibility, but to know that, i first have to thoroughly test Evo].
Yesterday after my post, my impatient curiosity got the better of me, so i decided to experiment with this [but for now only] in one of my Maui VMs [running in my Maui Host OS, of course]. So far i have successfully imported into that VM's Evo, my TB's Contacts, & Lightning's Calendar & Tasks.
The current major challenge though is the Email. It continues to irritate & amaze me that just like with my original testing a few years ago, Evo Devs still have not provided a dedicated import tool of TB's emails. Bonkers.
Based on myriad online How To's [eg, http://gaveen.owain.org/2007/07/howto-mi...rd-to.html ] which blithely instruct that one can simply effect the migration via copying all the Mbox files over from TB to Evo, only after wasting many hours did i eventually discover that in fact Evo stopped also using Mbox, & changed to Maildir, quite a long time ago, hence all those guides now are rubbish.
I discovered http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ & https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/mb2md/ ["A Perl script that takes one or more Mbox format mailbox files in a directory and convert them to Maildir format mailboxes"], & that this pgm is in our Repo, so now i am trying to deduce how to go about doing this.
Changing PIMs / email clients should not be this hard!! [& especially so, given that even after all this effort & time, even if i do succeed in importing the emails, i might then decide that Evo's behaviour & capabilities are still not for me, ie, staying with TB remains a real possibility, but to know that, i first have to thoroughly test Evo].