Re: [Evolution] Problem upgrading from Evolution 1.4.6 to 2.12.1

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:40 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 16:46 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> > I've been using Evolution v1.4.6 on a RedHat 9 box for years and finally
> > decided it was time to move to something newer. I've installed Fedora 8,
> > which includes Evolution v2.12.1. I copied over my /evolution directory
> > hoping Evolution would notice it on start up and magically upgrade it.
> > No such luck. It did see it but immediately generated this error...
>
>
> I worked on this problem most of the weekend and have made some progress
> that may help others in my situation.
>
> I left out something in my original post that I realize now is quite
> important. My Evolution 1.4.6 was configured to store its data in
> maildir format. This is directly related to my upgrade problem because
> support for user configurable local storage formats was dropped
> somewhere along the way between 1.4.6 and 2.12.

[...]

> While maildir support for local file storage was dropped from Evolution,
> maildir support as an inbound "Server Type" was added. What this means
> is you can select maildir as an alternative to POP3 or IMAP on the
> inbound server type selector.
>
> At first this seemed useless to me because my inbound server is POP3. If
> I selected POP3, I couldn't have maildir support. If I picked maildir, I
> couldn't retrieve my mail. Then I realized I might be able to create a
> second account and kludge the two together somehow. So, Account 1
> receives email from my POP3 server. Account 2 points to a Maildir area
> on my hard disk and acts as an alternate local datastore. I then had to
> create filters that move inbound mail from Account 1 to Account 2. 

Possibly you could use fetchmail instead of a direct connection to your
POP provider, and thus eliminate one of the accounts. I believe
fetchmail supports maildir format.

[...]

> Otherwise, I've noticed three other minor annoyances in the move from
> 1.4.x to 2.12:
>
> - No more "reply to list" option on the context menu. In 1.4.6, the
> message context menu gave three reply options: "reply to sender", "reply
> to list", and "reply to all". In 2.12 there are only two options: "reply
> to sender" and "reply to all". I subscribe to many lists and used the
> "reply to list" option frequently. Now to reply to a list message, I
> have to go through a multi-step process: click the message to highlight
> it, click "Message", then click "Reply to List". Actually, I'm surprised
> that simply clicking "reply" isn't automatically interpreted as "reply
> to list" when you click on an email from a list. It doesn't seem like it
> would be that hard to do. Oh well.

Make sure you have the "Mailing List actions" plugin enabled.
Message->Reply to List is Ctrl-L.

> - I can't use filters to put email into the junk folder. My inbound
> emails include a Spamassassin "X-Spam-flag: YES" if they were scored as
> spam by the ISP. I'd like to move these into the junk folder instead of
> my inbox but I can't select "junk" when the move dialog asks for the
> folder name. As it is, I had to create a "junk2" folder. The built-in
> spam checker uses the junk folder, so now I have to go through two
> different junk folders instead of one.

There is no Junk folder. Junk is a virtual folder, like Trash. Select
"Set Status to Junk" as the filter action.

poc