On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:44 -0400, Jennifer Weltz wrote: > We are now upgrading to Ubuntu with Evo 2.22.2 and with an on-site > Zimbra server. This is all new to us, but our biggest concern is that > we would lose our folders and filters that we have spent many hours > setting up in Evolution when making the change. Since we have had a > bad year with Evolution, we are inclined to move away from it entirely > and I admit to not fully understanding the advantage to keeping > Evolution on our desktops. Wouldn't this mean that if we access our > Zimbra server from home, we would not have all of our e-mail data and > filters? If so, this is not for us. If so, how does that work?
Hi Jennifer; thanks for this more detailed info. However, you still haven't provided us with the single most critical piece of information that we need: what were you using for email/calendaring service up until now? Did you have a POP server? IMAP? Was mail delivered locally to each system/calendars stored locally? Or something else? Basically, when you create a new Evolution account, how do you configure it? This is critical because it greatly impacts how you would migrate data: the type of mail service you have tells us where the data is today and what format it's in. However, although we'd like to know the answer to this and may have some suggestions for you, almost certainly we'll have to hand you off to the Zimbra user community (or support services if you purchased a support license) to actually get a real solution for this. They will be able to advise you on how best to import data in various formats into Zimbra; while we know Evo we don't know Zimbra and typically a server like that will have its own tools for importing large amounts of data. Evolution is definitely an application that has had a sketchy history, reliability-wise. I'd say that the very latest 2.22.2 / 2.22.3 versions are the best yet. But that's not to say every problem is solved. I'd give it a try with the latest Ubuntu version and see what you think. For accessing Zimbra you can use Evo or you can use their web interface. The advantages and disadvantages are the same as for any web-based vs. local service. However, you can easily switch back and forth. That's because a server like Zimbra keeps all the data ON THE SERVER: all the mail in your inbox, your deleted email, your other folders; plus all your calendar info. So, you can access it from any Evolution client or web client on any system (as long as you know your username/password) and see all your email/calendaring. Please let us know if you have more questions. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list