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

[Swarup <dinbandhu sprynet com>]

On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 11:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 22 April 2014 22:06, Swarup <dinbandhu sprynet com> wrote:
> > > I think you misunderstood what I was getting at. I mentioned Gmail
> > > simply as an example of an email provider that supports IMAP (as long as
> > > you configure it according to Gmail's recommendations). I do *not* mean
> > > you can drag and drop between Evo and a browser window pointed at Gmail.
> > > Once you configure your Gmail account for IMAP (using Gmail's web
> > > interface), you then set it up in Evo as an IMAP account and then move
> > > your mail across.
> >
> > 1. I have enabled IMAP in my gmail account. All that was involved there
> > was going into "settings" and selecting "enable IMAP". I am guessing
> > this is what is meant by "configure your Gmail account for IMAP", right?
>
> Yes.
>
> > 2. You have then instructed to "set it up in Evo as an IMAP account". I
> > see in the account settings of evo, under "receiving mail", one can
> > change it from POP to IMAP. The full settings which I found in the gmail
> > help pages are below, at the *. Please confirm this is what is needed.
>
> As long as you followed the settings exactly, that should be fine.
>
> > 3. You have instructed-- "then move your mail across"-- "move your mail
> > from the old Evo into an IMAP account (using drag and drop or ImapSync)"
> >
> > I went to the ImapSync website, but it looks like one has to purchase
> > that for 50 Euros.
>
> I hadn't noticed the new charge on that site. Try this one:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/imapsync/
>
> > So I thought I would try the drag and drop. But I
> > still don't understand where in the gmail account I am supposed to drag
> > the mail to. You already instructed that it is not the actual gmail
> > account itself.
>
> I don't understand what you think I said about "the actual Gmail
> account". Please point out the part that you find confusing.

You wrote:
"I think you misunderstood what I was getting at. I mentioned Gmail
simply as an example of an email provider that supports IMAP (as long as
you configure it according to Gmail's recommendations). I do *not* mean
you can drag and drop between Evo and a browser window pointed at
Gmail."

This is what I could not understood. If the browser window is not to be
pointed at Gmail, then what is it to be pointed at? Please pardon my
foolishness-- I am just not at all familiar with the scenario you are
describing.

> > Please let me know exactly where using the drag and
> > drop, I am to place all the mail folders.
>
> Wherever you like. Create a new folder ("label" in Gmail terminology)
> and just put it there. Refresh folder subscriptions in Evo so it will
> see the new folder with your mail in it.

If I am not supposed to create this new folder (or "label") in my GMail
account, as indicated above, then I'm afraid I still could not
understand where this new folder is supposed to be. You have said
"Create a new folder and just put it there"-- but I am not following
where this "there" is, if not in the gmail GUI mail program.

And you are saying that once I create that folder--wherever it is
supposed to be--I will then be able to see that folder in my evo GUI on
my desktop, correct?

Swarup