Re: [Evolution] Debian sarge upgrade path?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

there were no mailbox format changes, however indexing has changed as
well as summary formats - but these things will be automagically
upgraded by evolution when you run the newer version.

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:59, Erik Moeller wrote:
> I have over 20,000 mails in Evolution. What's the safest way to upgrade
> to a new version on a Debian/sarge system? The version presently in
> sarge is the horribly outdated 1.05, whereas unstable has version 1.45. 
>
> Provided the unstable packages ever make it into sarge, is there a safe
> email conversion path from 1.05 to 1.45 (provided there were any changes
> in the format, index etc.)? Would it be safe for me to install the 1.45
> packages through pinning?
>
> (The primary reason I want to update is that 1.05 has, IIRC, several
> security issues.)
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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