Re: [Evolution] Request advice on how to work around total failure of Evolution

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf alice-dsl net>]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 06:50 -0400, Rick Leir wrote:
> To get into your email quickly, boot from a liveCD

Oops earlier I sent a mail using the wrong account. VBox might be
another option.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>
To: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Request advice on how to work around total
failure of Evolution
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:19:13 +0100
Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 


On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 09:49 +0000, e-mail shaky.start wrote:
> Any advice on a work around? Is there any other app. which will
> understand Evolution's back-up file format?

Perhaps there's a live CD/DVD that comes with Evolution. Can't you
temporarily install a second Linux or install another distro running as
guest in VBox on your Mint and use Evolution on that other distro to
extract the backup and export the mails? Did you already try to open a
Evolution backup? Perhaps it's just a tar archive or similar.