Re: [Evolution] Restoring maildir mails from F9 Evolution to F10 evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 12:03 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 10:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 19:17 +1100, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
> > > I have installed ( instead of upgraded ) F10 over an existing F9
> > > installation. Have to mention Fedora release here as I can't recall
> > > the release numbers of Evolution that came with F9.
> >
> > F9 -> 2.22
> > F10 -> 2.24
> >
> > The local file structure changed from 2.22 to 2.24 because Evo now uses
> > an SQL database for indexing.
> >
> > This might be useful:
> >
> > http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_import_my_emails_from_KMail_to_Evolution.3F
>
> Wow. That suggests one has to manually import the mail one folder at a
> time. This seems like a fairly painful and tedious process to force
> Evolution users to go through just to upgrade Evolution from one version
> to another. Particularly for users with hundreds of folders and
> thousands of emails. Surely the developers included some automagical
> ability to simply identify the Evolution config and data files by
> version and make whatever changes are needed to keep them working with
> the new version of the program?

I've no idea. I had no problem converting from 2.22 to 2.24, in fact it
was completely transparent, but I don't use local maildir folders and in
fact most of my mail is on IMAP servers, which wouldn't be a problem in
any case.

poc