Re: [Evolution] moving old mail; accounts; and filters to a new user

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I Just looked back and saw this post about a similar situation.
> What if I do the following.
>
> cp -rf /home/oldusername/evolution/ /home/newusername/
> chown -R newusername /home/newusername/evolution
> chgrp -R newusername /home/newusername/evolution
>
> If this will work... how does it work. I mean.. I get the concept but
> what are all the switches.. 
> "-R" and "-rf". 
>
> I got this from a post by ewtrowbr yahoo com   
>
> Will this work?

Depends.

The cp command will *overwrite* settings and mail in the newusername
account, for example Inbox. This might not be a good idea, if you
already use this newusername account with Evolution (as you seem to do).

The chgrp command may fail, if the newusername account has a default
group different from the user name (for example 'users').

...guenther


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