Trying to mount archived mbox file from cdrom in folder of evolution profile

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On 02/25/2008 11:36 AM, geoffrey froner wrote:
> What I did:
> 
> My friend had several thousand(!) emails in Outlook Express and she
> wanted to move to Linux. I Winzipped the emails and then unzipped
> them in XP on a dual boot machine. Next I installed Thunderbird.exe,
> and, slick and easy, imported the existing files.  We could just
> leave them on XP, or, in your case, on a CD and read when desired.
> Or we could launch Linux (Ubu) and, using Evolution, or TB, import
> the files across systems for more permanent access.
> 
> I hope this works for you (and anyone else with this problem).
> Besides being buggy, Outlook makes it as difficult as possible to
> import/export email files.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Geoffrey

Excellent points & this might be helpful:
<http://www.howtoforge.com/importing_outlook_express_into_thunderbird_evolution>

If you don't have a dual-boot Windows, you can easily install
Thunderbird via Wine and do the conversion that way. Then follow the
instructions on page 1 & 2. The remaining pages show how to get them
from Thunderbird to Evolution.



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> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:15 PM, John Toliver <john.toliver at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> what I'm trying to do:
>>
>> Place a cdrom with my stored emails from the previous year into my
>> drive and have it appear in my evolution profile.  This would allow me
>> to browse them and look for information then close the folders and
>> pull the CD out.  I don't want to copy the whole mbox file back into
>> the profile for evolution to be able to read it.
>>
>> What I've tried so far:
>> I've been able to copy a simple mbox file into the evolution profile
>> and have it show up, and evolution will even recognize a link to the
>> file BUT I can't make a link from a mounted volume like a cdrom.
>> Also, when I place the test archive on a flash drive, evolution tries
>> to read it and then gives up saying it can't lock the file which means
>> I can't even open an archive sitting on a USB flash drive with rw
>> ability (formatted as fat32).
>>
>> I just want a clean way of being able to add my old email file
>> structure when I need to, and then pull it out without having to make
>> space for a few hundred MB of emails.
>>
>> Alternatively if evolution can be made to look at the cdrom drive that
>> would be great also.
>>
>> Any ideas would be great.
>>
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