On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:48 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:18 +1000, Christopher M Bailey wrote: Actually the real problem is with whoever thought a separate backup and restore tool for an email application was a good idea For more than 20 years a simple backup of all the files in your home directory has been enough to get everything restored.
That *is* enough. You backup and restore "your home directory" [not a cherry picked backup] - and it works. I've done it many times.
Yet someone, somewhere decided to change that and seems to expect that every user of evolution has looked for a backup option (in the email client? what?).
Yep. A great idea for when you just want to backup or transfer the contents managed by that application.
Even when things did happen, such as a change from mbox to maildir, there was a simple tool to run that would do the conversion. Where is that tool for Evolution?
The tools *is* Evolution. It just couldn't be easier. Evolution will migrate forward from previous versions - to a reasonable degree. And if you explicitly choose to use mbox or maildir - it support that. I just don't see what you are complaining about.
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