Re: [Evolution] bug during transition from V2 to V3

[Anglade Pierre-Matthieu <anglade gmail com>]

Hello,

Thank you for your answer. Here are more in formations corresponding to your questions. Please, do not hesitate to ask many more. I'm very grateful for any kind of help and then very willing to fully collaborate.

Process running ?

* To be able to use my computer, I have to SIGSTOP the process every morning and then SIGCONT it every evening. So far, it is running since one week. Now that the memory use has increased to it's maximum, it is seldom able to use more than 1% of the cpu (because it is always wanting datas stored in the swap). Before, getting to ~8GB it was persistently using ~100% of cpu. It is clear that the process is running. What is unclear for me — and the real purpose of my question — is whether it is really working efficiently or it has just fallen into some kind of infinite loop. 

Size of the mailstore

* I'm not sure of the mailstore location. Here is what I currently have on disk :

$ du -ms .local/share/evolution/mail/ .config/evolution/mail/

3500    .local/share/evolution/mail/

2       .config/evolution/mail/

Kind of accounts

* Previously I was using a pop3 account. And I'm keeping all the associated old emails. Now, I'm currently using an imap account. YET… for as much as I've been able to guess, evolution IS still storing some of my emails on disks : when I sort them out in some kind of "local folders". (I must apologize, but I'm not able to use technically accurate wording about emails : I'm definitely not an expert regarding these technologies). 

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:

On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Anglade Pierre-Matthieu wrote:

> - Is there anything I can do to help evolution perform his format
> transition ?

Again, hard to say without more information. For example, if your
accounts are IMAP it's relatively easy to transition them as all the
mail is on the server. If they're POP then all the local mail files have
to be converted from mbox to maildir format. In the latter case there
are ways to do the conversion offline, i.e. stopping Evo completely and
using conversion tools from the Shell.

 

* I'm definitely interested in knowing more about the way to work this out offline if it exist. Especially by shell commands. It's usually so much more easy to understand. But you wording makes me fear the mix of pop and imap is not a very favorable configuration (I was very surprised that evolution was asking my password during its conversion process ; so I guess it does require some kind of connection). 

 

Alternatively, you can set up a
new Evo instance and then import the old mailboxes, which will convert
them on the fly. You would also have to save your address books and
re-import them, which depends on how they are set up.

 

* I guess I don't understand what you mean by a new Evo instance. Would you mind elaborate on this please ? 

Thanks for all,

PMA