Re: [Evolution-hackers] mail migration

[Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa gmail com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Another question I have, to install evolution 3.0.x do I need to
>> install also evolution-data-server-3.0.x or can I do that with
>> evolution-data-server-3.6.x ?
>>
>> Rgds
>> Saxa
>
> Ok it seems that downgrading my evolution to 3.0.x is not an option,
> missing a lot of stuff aas deps and would meant
> to downgrade a lot of things, from gtk on.
>
> So I will opt for the other option as Adam suggested.
>
> Rgds
> Saxa