Re: [Evolution-hackers] mail migration

[Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 23:29 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> No, I mean you can make an account in Evolution that stores mail locally
> in a 'standard' format like MBOX or MailDir.  You specify a directory
> and mail and mailboxes are stored in that format there.  Then you can
> just drag the mail from your "On this computer" mailbox (assuming you
> are POP'ing into that from somewhere).  Then you have the mail 'outside
> of Evolution'.  And the new version of Evolution can look in the same
> place for mail; you can either copy it back into on-this-computer
> [assuming it doesn't transfer automatically] after you upgrade, or just
> continue using the 'external' mail store.
>
> I believe this is an option for 2.26, which I certain could do at least
> MBOX, if no MH.  But I don't really remember the 2.x series that well
> [it has been a long time].

Ok all my mail is pop and its stored on my few computers, I rsync them arround.
So all I have is a huge .evolution directory, with all what is made and used by
evolution-2.26.3 . I will try your suggestion.

Rgds
Saxa