Evolution to IMAP migration script

Hi everyone,

I’m ready to release my Evolution to IMAP migration script. The script will check your local evolution mbox store and tries to upload all mbox files to an IMAP server like google-mail.

You need to make sure that:

• you have downloaded and extracted the upload_imap.py script [see this link]
• you have enough space on the IMAP server
• no mails are stored in a folder which contains sub-folder(s)
• you have some time
• you have copied the upload_imap.py script to the location where the migration_script.py is stored

Download my script here and extract it. Make sure you read the readme file and changed the settings to plausible values. The script is very dirty and nasty and does not check any mistakes done by the user.

Run the script by typing this in your terminal:

python migration_script.py

Find below the script:

#!/usr/bin/env python ''' Small and dirty script to scan my Evolution mbox folder. This script will set up an environment to allow a simple and fast creation and migration of evolution emails done by [tool] '''   import os, sys, imaplib, string, array   ############# declaration ############# server_hostname = ''    # your mail-server server_user = ''    # username used for authentication server_password = ''    # password used for authentication   evolution_rootdir = '~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local' # your default evolution folder   imap_rootdir = 'imported' # use something else than 'INBOX' imap_delimiter = '/'      # default on most servers seems to be a period, mine uses a slash imap_use_SSL = True      # we want to use ssl imap_Err_Logging = True   # we want to log errors   ############# implementation ############# fld = list()   TL = list() t = ''   def readEvolutionFolder():     for root, subFolders, Files in os.walk(evolution_rootdir):         for file in Files:             if (string.find(file, '.cmeta') != -1) or (string.find(file, '.ibex.') != -1) or (string.find(file,'folder.db') != -1):                 TL.append(file)             else:                 EvolutionMbox = evoFld()                 t = os.path.join(root, file)                 EvolutionMbox.folderpath = t                 t = string.replace(t,evolution_rootdir,'')                 t = string.replace(t, '.sbd', '')                 t = string.replace(t, 'Inbox',imap_rootdir)                 t = string.replace(t, '/', '', 1)                 t = string.replace(t, '/', imap_delimiter)                 EvolutionMbox.boxpath = t                 fld.append(EvolutionMbox)   def createIMAPPostBox( name ):     if (imap_use_SSL == True):         MailBox = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(server_hostname)     else:         MailBox = imaplib.IMAP4(server_hostname)     MailBox.login(server_user, server_password)       print MailBox.create(name)       MailBox.logout()   def compareSlashes1(f1, f2):     cntSlashesF1 = 0     cntSlashesF2 = 0       cntSlashesF1 = string.find(f1.boxpath, '/')     cntSlashesF2 = string.find(f2.boxpath, '/')       if (cntSlashesF1 <= cntSlashesF2):         return -1     else:         return 1   class evoFld:     def __init__(self):         self.folderpath = ''         self.boxpath = ''   def syncFolders ():     imap_upload = ''       for f in fld:         if(f.boxpath != imap_rootdir):             print 'creating: ', f.boxpath             createIMAPPostBox(f.boxpath)             print 'passing credentials to imap_upload.py'             imap_upload = ' --host='             imap_upload += server_hostname             if (imap_use_SSL == True):                 imap_upload += ' --ssl'             imap_upload += ' --user='             imap_upload += server_user             imap_upload += ' --pass='             imap_upload += server_password             imap_upload += ' --box="'             imap_upload += f.boxpath             imap_upload += '" "'             imap_upload += f.folderpath             imap_upload += '"'             if (imap_Err_Logging == True):                 imap_upload += ' --error="Import_Errors"'             os.system('python imap_upload.py' + imap_upload)           else:             print 'passing credentials to imap_upload.py'             imap_upload = ' --host='             imap_upload += server_hostname             if (imap_use_SSL == True):                 imap_upload += ' --ssl'             imap_upload += ' --user='             imap_upload += server_user             imap_upload += ' --pass='             imap_upload += server_password             imap_upload += ' --box="Inbox"'             imap_upload += ' "'             imap_upload += f.folderpath             imap_upload += '"'             if (imap_Err_Logging == True):                 imap_upload += ' --error="Import_Errors"'             os.system('python imap_upload.py' + imap_upload)   readEvolutionFolder() fld.sort(compareSlashes1) syncFolders()