On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 06:06 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:15:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Yes, thank you very much, your howto needed a little upgrade. > > > > Restore e-mail account settings. > > -------------------------------- > > > > - Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account. > > > > - Close Evolution. > > > > - From terminal execute `ps ux | grep evolution` to see what Evolution > > related processes are runing. Kill all of them. > > > > - Overwrite the content of /home/<useraccount>/.evolution/mail/ folder > > with the content from the corresponding original folder. > > > > For Ubuntu Natty and Debian stable it's not ~/.evolution anymore! > > > > # cp > > -pr /<mount>/home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution/mail > > /home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution > > > > - From original /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/% > > gconf.xml file > > copy content of all <li type="string"> *** </li> entries between <entry > > name="accounts" mtime="1305671823" type="list" ltype="string"> and its > > final </entry> tag to the newly > > generated /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/ evolution/mail/%gconf.xml > > file. For best result restart computer before starting Evolution. > > > > If the accountname would differ or one Evolution still does use > > ~/.evolution, than you've got a lot to edit. I run > > > > # cp -p /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/% > > gconf.xml /home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml > > I'm not sure for Ubuntu Natty, I'll take a look tomorrow. What's to > Debian Squeeze 6.01, it's still ~/.evolution on my system. > > > OTOH it should be possible to use 1 partition for the emails and to get > > access by Evolution from different installs, assumed that the mount > > points do have the same path names, but I didn't really verified this > > ;). > > I'm going to investigate such an option too. When (or if?) I have time > for it. :-)
"When (or if?) I have time for it." +1 But I've too much else to do, OTOH at the moment I'm jobless (hopefully this will change soon ;), hence it could be, that I will find some time. > > > Just doing this all filters get lost, there was a message regarding to > > junk, mails that should not be shown by threads are shown by threads, > > anyway, I got the mails. > > Did you mean newsgroup filters? I did not get this trouble since I've > never used Evolution as my newsgroup reader. I use Pan instead. > > But I did not loose any of my e-mail filters. Perhaps I lost the email filter, because I didn't follow all of your howto. > > PS: Sending from the 'new' Evolution. > > I'm glad it worked for you. And thanks for sharing back. I'll add your > updates to my records. Again, thank you :) Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1306914319.2017.9.camel@debian
