Comment 6 for bug 673520

This annoys me a lot too. Along with .MSG (some proprietary format) not being opened so easily. But that's another story.

Interestingly, if I take a mail and save it as mbox, some things can be noted:

The first line must be:
--------------------------------
From <email address hidden>
bla
bla
blah, and further down this line MUST appear:
From: <email address hidden>
bla
bla
Subject: something
bla
bla
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NOTE, the first line MUST be "From " /without/ a colon, and later on the "From: " /with/ a colon MUST appear for evolution to be able to import the message.

I say "import" because it's the closest I get. The message isn't just *displayed*, as in thunderbird. It's IMPORTED into evolution.

Can't say if that's good or bad. Breaks what I expected. On the other hand, it's probably the best way to store mails. But my company drag and drop mails back and forth from disk to Outlook, so I'd like to make the same possible in Evolution. Not in the mood for discussing if it's good or bad - they just want it, and it's working out great for them.

But either evolution is bad on /requiring/ these lines in the .eml, or the spec is bad. Anyway I think Evolution should be hacked to deal with [slightly] malformed .eml