Re: [Evolution] Newbie-questions

[James Freer <jessejazza3 uk gmail com>]

On 24 October 2016 at 20:22, Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 10:17 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> > If Evolution hasn't yet, just sit down and document all of the file
> > locations and DConf / GSettings keys.
>
> As already pointed out, push F1 and Ctrl+F, then search for "back" and
> you'll get
>
> "Back up and restore"
>
> It mentions that you anyway need to backup bogofilter and spamassasin
> directories separately, which make sense, since they are shared by
> several apps. I for example use bogofilter with Claws and Evolution.
>
> On the bottom there is a link to
>
> "Data storage locations
> This is only interesting for advanced users who want to debug problems.
> Evolution 3.6 and later stores its data according to the XDG Base
> Directory Specification. By default this means:
> The user's data files
> $HOME/.local/share/evolution
> Various configuration and state files
> $HOME/.config/evolution
> Account settings
> $HOME/.config/evolution/sources
> Disposable data caches
> $HOME/.cache/evolution
> Configuration settings in GSettings
> $HOME/.config/dconf"
>
> A backup of .cache isn't needed.
>
> I'm neither a fan of dconf, nor do I use gesettings, but it has got a
> help option and a man page, if you really want to 'get' the values.
>
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings list-schemas | grep evolution
> org.gnome.evolution.shell
> org.gnome.evolution.plugin.face-picture
> [snip]
> org.gnome.evolution.mail
> [snip]
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.gnome.evolution.mail
> composer-magic-smileys
> composer-use-outbox
> [snip]
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.mail
> composer-magic-smileys
> false
>
> My backup strategy is to backup /home completely, using cp -pr or cp -a,
> resp. tar or tar -xattrs. I don't know if attributes are really
> important, restoring from backups that didn't care for attributes never
> caused an issue for me. Since I'm using a rolling release I don't have
> to mess about distro releases. You could use rsync or what ever else,
> but IMO it makes sense to copy the complete home directory.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

Thanks folks - I'll use the provided backup feature. The way Evolution
stores data is fine but i was unsure. It's similar to TB. Sylpheed
makes life easy as it stores mailboxes for each email address in a
named directory but Sypheed doesn't cope with reading html so well
which is why I have changed to Evolution.

One thing I have noticed is that whilst in evolution if I click on a
link it invokes the Firefox browser rather than Chromium (set as
default). There's a setting somewhere that i have missed.

james