[Evolution] Migration problems

[Ross Boylan <ross biostat ucsf edu>]

I was running evolution 1.2.4 under SunOS.  I copied my personal evolution
directory to a Debian GNU/Linux system, installed evolution 1.4, and
started it up.

When this had some troubles, I renamed the evolution directory and
started evolution again.

Among other things, I noticed the following two oddities:

1) Mail hosts:
The configuration included an IMAP server, which was remote for the
SunOS system but was running on the Linux system.  I would have
thought it would just work, since the system name was valid from
either (I was reprompted for the password, but I gather that's
expected).  I suspected their might be some security issues with the
IMAP server, and changed the name to localhost.  This worked better.

After clearing away the evolution directory and restarting, the IMAP
folders were still there.  So apparently it's not kept under
evolution/ (or at least isn't there under 1.4).  Where is that
information?

2) Contacts:

Some members of this list indicated that the address book was binary,
and so might not travel.  To my surprise, my contacts were preserved
after the first startup.  (Or does the "address book" refer to
something other than the contacts folder?).

After I moved the evolution directory, the contacts were empty except
for Ximian.  That was not surprising.

However, when I tried moving back my original evolution directory, the
contacts remained empty.  Where did they go?


Thanks for any help.

By the way, a solution involving starting again would be OK; I don't
think I need to preserve anything I've done.  In fact, I need to clear
out the trash on my original system first, since I noticed all my
deleted messages reappeared after this maneuver.