[Evolution] Restoring mail etc. to Evolution

[Simon Roberts <simon dancingcloudservices com>]

Well, I answered my own question (how do I insert old evolution files
recovered from a dead system into a new install.)

It turns out that it's pretty simple, take the contents of the following
folders and copy them across:

.gconf/apps/evolution
.evolution
.beagle/Indexes/Evolution* (there are two folders that match this
wildcard)

and for the spam filtering:

.spamassassin

I also had to delete: .gconfd/saved_state

because otherwise it didn't seem to notice new stuff.

Finally, Evolution has a neat trick/nasty gotcha, depending on your
perspective. Once you've started it in a login session, it never
actually stops. This means that you must copy these files into place
_before_ you start Evolution for the first time. Otherwise, it still
believes what it knew before and it gets very confusing as nothing
changes no matter what files you change! This, as you can probably
guess, is what screwed me up so badly.

Cheers,
Simon