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Title:
  Evolution mbox export broken

Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Following Ubuntu suggestions and getting rid of Evolution which is
  painfully slow on my computer, I am trying to migrate to Thunderbird,
  using the "mbox export" feature available in Evolution.

  Unfortunately, the feature seems to be broken in Evolution 3.2, as
  reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667576.
  Short version is: each mail in the exported mailbox encapsulates the
  whole mail bundle plus their attachments, which make a few hundred
  mails take 1 GiB.

  The bug is marked fixed as of Evolution 3.3.5, which has not been
  bundled in last Ubuntu update. Evolution team send pack to
  distribution provider to include the corresponding patch
  
(http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=df3495a6ec99d53beeaac6b9a2fde8dfd356c439)
  in prior versions of Evolution.

  I tried a number of workarounds, including installing a beta
  distribution in a VM with a current version of Evolution to use its
  export feature but, in addition to being a painfully long process, it
  simply does not work as Evolution 3.3.9 does not seem to correctly
  handle my 1.4 GiB archive file and miss half the mails bundled. For
  the few ones which made it through the archive/restore/export/import
  process, the result is perfectly OK though.

  Manually exporting thousands of mails (yes, 10+ years ;)) does not
  seem reasonnable to me either.

  Is there a plan to include this patch to help me and other people migrating 
to LTS 12.04 to use this feature?
  Thanks by advance!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue May  8 18:50:32 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evolution
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (11 days ago)

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