On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 19:40 -0500, Alfred wrote: > Hi: > I'm new to this list, don't know all the PROTO (in front of) Cols > (Glue). > I used Ubuntu 6.06-1 for quite a while, now I'm using 7.10. I wanted to > take all my Email and contact list out of Evolution 6.06-1 and append it > to Evolution 7.10. I tried the Box A to Box B approach and that did not > work. In fact it went like Box A to Box A and not Box A to Box B.
I thought you are in a time-machine before realizing that you are referring to the Ubuntu version :) With Evolution 2.12 you have the option to backup and restore things. File -> Backup Settings and File->Restore settings > > > Is there some way of doing this without having to retype the 3884 > E-mails and the 100's of Contacts over into 7.10? Doing this way could > take a few minutes, until Ubuntu Version 15.04 comes out at least. :) If > I knew where the Folders were, and What Files to Transfer, perhaps that > might work?? > > Alfred! > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Upgrade from RH8,evo1.0.8 > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:50:00 +0000 > > Barry wrote: > > Digging deep here, I noted some November '07 info from Steven Rainwater and > > Patrick O'Callaghan in November, upgrading from 1.4.6 to 2.12.1, all in > > Redhat format; my project attempt is from RH8, version 1.0.8 to the latest > > in Ubuntu. I think I'm into something over my head. I don't know what > > Maildir is, nor mh nor mbox. I'm not able to poke around in source code; I > > don't use SpamAssasin - probably should. And, of course, I have tons of > > mail I don't want to lose. Would I be ahead to set up a local SMTP server, > > and mail myself stuff from box A to box B? Or is there something easy here? > > My setup in 1.0.8 is strictly defaults, whatever they are. No contacts, > > just mail TIA , Barry > > Maildir, mh and mbox are all alternative formats for storing mail > locally on your PC. Evo used to support all three, but IIRC now only > supports mbox, so if your local mail is in some other format you'll have > to convert it. > > While there are undoubtedly scripts available on the Web for doing this, > they won't in general be oriented to Evo users, so they would need some > manual massaging of files and directories. The alternative, and > recommended, method is to move your local mail to an IMAP server and > back again, i.e. use the old version of Evo to move all your local mail > to the server, install the new version of Evo, and then move the mail > back (or just leave it there if you prefer). > > If you don't have access to an IMAP server, Gmail now offers IMAP, > though the setup is slightly unusual since they use labels rather than > folders. > > Note that mailing stuff from one box to another, as you suggest, is > going to change header information, particularly dates, so it's a > non-transparent process. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Sankar P Harver's Law: A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
