[evolution] ".eml" files cannot be imported as in Outlook, Thunderbird or KMail

[Miroslav Hadzhiev]

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution cannot import '.eml' files (the files which are created when somebody forwarded an e-mail to you).
I think this feature is VERY important and it's very good that at least Thunderbird and KMail has it (under Linux).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 13 12:17:41 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you attach an example file to the report? Thanks.

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

Here you are, Pedro (:

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

known upstream :

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596839

comment there:

"If you're talking about mbox files, you have to use File -> Import.

It's been proposed to have Evolution announce to the rest of the desktop that
it knows how to open importable file types (mbox, ical, csv, etc.) so
Evolution's import assistant would start automatically when you double-click on
one of these files types in, say, Nautilus. But that feature is not written
yet. "

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

'.eml' files cannot be imported. This type of files is not supported in Evolution.
So why the status is changed to 'Invalid'?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

please comment upstream.