Re: [Evolution] Upgrade from RH8,evo1.0.8

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

Barry wrote:
> Digging deep here, I noted some November '07 info from Steven Rainwater and
> Patrick O'Callaghan in November, upgrading from 1.4.6 to 2.12.1, all in
> Redhat format;  my project attempt is from RH8, version 1.0.8 to the latest
> in Ubuntu.  I think I'm into something over my head.  I don't know what
> Maildir is, nor mh nor mbox.  I'm not able to poke around in source code; I
> don't use SpamAssasin - probably should.  And, of course, I have tons of
> mail I don't want to lose.  Would I be ahead to set up a local SMTP server,
> and mail myself stuff from box A to box B?  Or is there something easy here?
> My setup in 1.0.8 is strictly defaults, whatever they are.  No contacts,
> just mail  TIA , Barry

Maildir, mh and mbox are all alternative formats for storing mail 
locally on your PC. Evo used to support all three, but IIRC now only 
supports mbox, so if your local mail is in some other format you'll have 
to convert it.

While there are undoubtedly scripts available on the Web for doing this, 
they won't in general be oriented to Evo users, so they would need some 
manual massaging of files and directories. The alternative, and 
recommended, method is to move your local mail to an IMAP server and 
back again, i.e. use the old version of Evo to move all your local mail 
to the server, install the new version of Evo, and then move the mail 
back (or just leave it there if you prefer).

If you don't have access to an IMAP server, Gmail now offers IMAP, 
though the setup is slightly unusual since they use labels rather than 
folders.

Note that mailing stuff from one box to another, as you suggest, is 
going to change header information, particularly dates, so it's a 
non-transparent process.

poc