Re: [Evolution] Removing Ubuntu 9.04, Installing 14.04. How to move Evo?

[Swarup <dinbandhu sprynet com>]

On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 01:34 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> Swarup wrote:
> > You seem to be describing a way of utilizing both gmail and evo together
> > ("Gmail with IMAP via Evo"), going forward. And it sounds interesting.
> >
> > But I could not understand where you've described how I am to get all
> > the mail from my old evo into my new one. That is the main thing I need
> > to get done first.
>
> He is proposing to do so by storing your email in an imap server. So you
> actually move from old-evo to imap. Then new-evo uses the account as
> imap.
>
> I actually find it more complicated than it should.
>
>
> > Also please comment on the below option (which I asked about above). It
> > seems like by far the easiest and most straightforward method for
> > migrating my mail from the old evo to the new, if it will work:
> >
> > What about creating the compressed backup file,
> > "evolution-backup.tar.gz"? I thought that was looking like a wonderful
> > approach. Will the new evo be able to import this file and thereby bring
> > in all my old mail?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Swarup
>
> It *should* be able to do so. I would first test the backup file in your
> old evolution (create a new user account in ubuntu 9.04, import the file
> and check you have everything you expected) to ensure it has been
> created correctly. And still, keep backups of the files. I think that
> old evolution may be using mbox instead of maildir as newer versions.
> But are nonetheless easily recoverable.

I just started up the import command (in my current user account) to see
how the import command works. It asks whether I want to "import data and
settings from older programs", or "import a single file". 

First I tried "import a single file", but the accepted file types
include only Berkeley Mailbox (mbox), Evolution CSV or Tab (.csv, tab.),
Mozilla CSV or tab, Outlook CSV or tab, vcard (.vcf, .gcrd), LDAP data
interchange formate (ldif). So the ".tar.gz" format is not listed, and
it did not want to allow me to select this backup file. If I open the
backup file I've made using Archive, I get the folder ".evolution",
which it doesn't seem to want either. 

And if I select the former option, it says it is looking for Pine,
Netscape, Elm, iCalender and could not find any of those.

So is the file type "evolution-backup.tar.gz" not an importable file
type? Would I need to convert this to another file type, such as vcard
or something?

Thanks,
Swarup