Re: import mbox

Hi Scott,

On Jun 02, 2004, at 21:21, Scott Hernandez wrote:

> The import option is per account, it seems. Does it matter what 
> account you press the import button under?

No. But you need to have at least one account defined for the import to 
work.

>
> The mail I'm importing is not associated with any active account in 
> Zoë. It is old stuff from a half-dozen old email accounts and systems.
>
> Is there an easy way to separate this email, from my active accounts, 
> so I can remove it if there are problems during the import? Is the 
> easiest to accomplish this is to disable all accounts, do the import, 
> then I can delete the mail from the filesystem (by date-created) and 
> reindex if I see any problems?

If you want to keep it segregated, your best bet is to create an extra 
'identity', create a dummy account in it, and run the import against 
that identity. If things get awry, you can delete that identity 
altogether.

http://zoe.omara.ca/MultipleUsers

Cheers,

R.



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