Re: [Evolution] How can I merge my restored Evo mail with todays read mail ??

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:58 -0700, John R. Carter, Sr. wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:38 PM, William Case wrote:
>
> > I had backed up Evo as of yesterday so when I restored I got back most
> > of my configuration of Evo, plus mail etc. but by doing so I have
> > eliminated a day's worth of mail.  Todays mail has been saved in a
> > separate rsync backup.  My ISP is a POP3, SMTP account.
>
> > Is there any way I can merge the rsync backup mail with the restored  
> > Evo
> > mail
>
> At this point in time, I don't even know where my mail messages are  
> kept. If Evo is anything like Thunderbird, you'll have a folder with  
> all your messages in it. There might also be a file that contains  
> pointers or other record keeping on each folder. What I do in  
> Thunderbird is to delete that record keeping folder and concatenate an  
> old mail folder with a new one and restart Thunderbird.
>
> > or is there a way to retrieve a days worth of read mail from my
> > ISP?
>
> If Evo doesn't have information about that mail that is on the ISP  
> stored in a record keeping file somewhere, it will think it is new  
> mail and read it again.
>
> Don't really know how Evo mail is stored, so this is only a guess.
>
> Since you were able to rsync your Evo mail, maybe you can tell me  
> where you found it?

I rsync ~/.evolution which contains everything but the gconf
configuration files.  I am not sure about IMAP; it uses a separate mbox.
If you are using a POP3 ISP service all mail is stored in
~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox and other message filtered accounts.

> >
>
> John
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Regards Bill;
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