Re: [Evolution] Upgrade from RH8,evo1.0.8

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 19:40 -0500, Alfred wrote:
> Hi:
> I'm new to this list, don't know all the PROTO (in front of) Cols
> (Glue).
> I used Ubuntu 6.06-1 for quite a while, now I'm using 7.10. I wanted to
> take all my Email and contact list out of Evolution 6.06-1 and append it
> to Evolution 7.10. I tried the Box A to Box B approach and that did not
> work. In fact it went like Box A to Box A and not Box A to Box B.

I thought you are in a time-machine before realizing that you are
referring to the Ubuntu version :)

With Evolution 2.12 you have the option to backup and restore things.
File -> Backup Settings and File->Restore settings

>  
> 
> Is there some way of doing this without having to retype the 3884
> E-mails and the 100's of Contacts over into 7.10? Doing this way could
> take a few minutes, until Ubuntu Version 15.04 comes out at least. :) If
> I knew where the Folders were, and What Files to Transfer, perhaps that
> might work??
> 
> Alfred!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
> To: Barry <bpelham consolidated net>
> Cc: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Upgrade from RH8,evo1.0.8
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:50:00 +0000
> 
> Barry wrote:
> > Digging deep here, I noted some November '07 info from Steven Rainwater and
> > Patrick O'Callaghan in November, upgrading from 1.4.6 to 2.12.1, all in
> > Redhat format;  my project attempt is from RH8, version 1.0.8 to the latest
> > in Ubuntu.  I think I'm into something over my head.  I don't know what
> > Maildir is, nor mh nor mbox.  I'm not able to poke around in source code; I
> > don't use SpamAssasin - probably should.  And, of course, I have tons of
> > mail I don't want to lose.  Would I be ahead to set up a local SMTP server,
> > and mail myself stuff from box A to box B?  Or is there something easy here?
> > My setup in 1.0.8 is strictly defaults, whatever they are.  No contacts,
> > just mail  TIA , Barry
> 
> Maildir, mh and mbox are all alternative formats for storing mail 
> locally on your PC. Evo used to support all three, but IIRC now only 
> supports mbox, so if your local mail is in some other format you'll have 
> to convert it.
> 
> While there are undoubtedly scripts available on the Web for doing this, 
> they won't in general be oriented to Evo users, so they would need some 
> manual massaging of files and directories. The alternative, and 
> recommended, method is to move your local mail to an IMAP server and 
> back again, i.e. use the old version of Evo to move all your local mail 
> to the server, install the new version of Evo, and then move the mail 
> back (or just leave it there if you prefer).
> 
> If you don't have access to an IMAP server, Gmail now offers IMAP, 
> though the setup is slightly unusual since they use labels rather than 
> folders.
> 
> Note that mailing stuff from one box to another, as you suggest, is 
> going to change header information, particularly dates, so it's a 
> non-transparent process.
> 
> poc
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Sankar P
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