Re: [Evolution] evolution

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 7/19/2017 10:17 AM, Marcin Kozyra wrote:
> How would I go about moving email accounts with passwords to new 
> computer? Restoring backup is not working for me.
>
> Using fedora 26.

I believe passwords are stored in the Gnome keyring. By default they are 
decrypted with the login password.

The keyring files are stored in either ~/.gnome2/keyrings or in later 
versions like Fedora 26 in ~/.local/share/keyrings. So you might need to 
move the files if you're restoring from a very old backup.

Email accounts are in ~/.config/evolution, I am pretty sure. Really old 
versions may have it in .evolution or .gnome2/evolution, I don't recall 
exactly.

If you used Gnome Online Accounts to set them up, be careful. A while 
ago I ended up with duplicated email accounts because the hostname of my 
laptop changed so GOA decided to rebuild new copies of all of the 
accounts. I had to delete and recreate all of the accounts.

I did file a bug so it may have been fixed. I never checked since 
building new copies of everything Gnome and doing test restores of 
backup copies to new machines with different names really didn't appeal 
to me.

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