I install Ubuntu, but Evolution can't read my old Outlook/Outlook Express e-mail! Is this the dark ages?

I figured out how to convert my e-mail (readpst) - but I'm a geek who likes solving problems like that. To attract non-geeks, it must be easier!

I switched my mom over to Ubuntu a couple months ago and I have already had to rescue her email 2 times. The problem is when a folder in Evolution surpasses 2 GB, Evolution can't access it anymore. Evolution allows this without any warning and then that folder stops working without any information. The end user ends up lost and doesn't know how to recover the 2+ GB of email that is now inaccessible. There is a program called archivemail in the universe repository that will let a user archive mail stored in MBOX format. I've had to use this to recover my mom's email.

Evolution should warn the user to archive their mail before it goes past the 2 GB limit. An even more user friendly approach would be to automatically archive email folders for the user. Of course, Evolution could also be fixed to allow more than 2 GB in a folder.

Please fix this as it drives my mother and ultimately me nuts every time it happens. I can't imagine how many other people have run into this and don't know how to recover from it.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324679

A lot of people are switching over from Windows to Ubuntu now days. Some of them have emails they have saved in Outlook Express and realize too late that DBX files don't work with Evolution. It would be great if Evolution Mail could import dbx files as well as other mail formats. This functionallity could be made as a plugin that could be optionally installed from Add/Remove or with commandline apt-get.