Re: [Evolution-hackers] mail migration

[Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 04:54 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
>> Hi I know this is not direclty related to hacking on evolution, but I
>> would like to ask one advice.
>> I have about 5Gb of e-mails on my laptop which I use for work, and it
>> is still on evolution 2.26.3.
>> I would like to migrate now this stuff to evolution 3.6.x
>> What is the best way to do that ?
>> Simply upgrading evolution seems not to work, as it starts the wizard
>> as if .evolution dir doesnt exist.
>
> If all you want to do is mail then it seems like it wouldn't be a bad
> idea to make an 'external' local account (maildir or mbox [not certain
> what is available in 2.26]) and then just copy all your mail.  Upgrade.
> 'Reconnect' the new evolution to that account.

Ok how can I do that external account ? You mean use something else
like Thunderbird ?

>
> For contacts you can also select them all, save to a VCF file, and then
> import that VCF files.  That isn't bad as a backup in any case.
>
Ok thats clear. Thanks.
Sasa