Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

["Roy Reese" <waterbearer54 gmx com>]

On Sat, 2014-10-044 at 17:27 +0200 Ralf Mardof wrote:
> You can download from an IMAP server and delete them there too and
> even store IMAP in your home, but that's where the issues with IMAP
> started for me, by getting duplicated emails. I'm using POP, but I
> never upgraded by such huge steps as 2.28.3 to 3.10.4. Nowadays I'm
> using a rolling release, so I only update from one to the next
> release.
 
While the issue of IMAP v. POP has been widely commented, I have not seen comments in the thread about the 
Linux Mint update procedure outlined here:
 
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
 
The process involves making an backup of the home directory (for which Mint provides a tool), which would 
include the Evo data. I would follow the Evo backup procedure to try to restore later. However, the Mint 
update procedure should be sufficient to assure that there is a separate copy of all data.
 
In response to a prior suggestion, I recently had to move selected messages from one Evo installation to 
another and used the procedure described earlier for creating a file and treating it as a separate account 
and then moving the messages to "my" account. The approach works perfectly and is something I first learned 
after trying Kmail . . . and discovering after the fact that it had no export function!