Re: [Evolution] Restore a backup from Evo 3.0 to Evo 2.3

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:33 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> Hi, please cc me on replies
> After trying out Gnome 3 and Evo 3 on Fedora 15 I've gone back to
> Gnome 2 and Evo 2 on Debian Squeeze. Should get a couple more years
> out of it there and hopefully things will be a bit better next time I
> try it. Anyway, did a backup and tried to restore, but I gather some
> important things have changed, as the restore option didn't work, and
> I can't import the emails either.

Backup/Restore only goes forward.

> How can I get the emails that are backed up and stored under the 'cur'
> folder, into Evo 2.3 which doesn't seem to have a cur folder?
> My best guess is maybe install thunderbird, import them into that,
> then export them into a format that evo 2.3 can read? Assistance
> greatly appreciated.

Create an MailDir account, copy the messages to that, and configure the
same MailDir account in the older version of Evolution.  Should be very
fast.