On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 19:06 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 16:13 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > I trying to save all my Exchange mails(using EWS) to local disk and tried > > using > > "Backup Evolution Data" but the resulting file is only a few KB's so > > obviously > > it didn't work. > > Hi, > the backup skips caches, and as the evolution-ews account is only a > local copy of the remote data, thus everything is stored in the cache, > then those are skipped from the backup.
> > > So I figured I could use "Copy Folder to" each folder from Exchange account > > to "On This Computer" but then I lost the "Received" date as Evo rewrites > > the date. > > Interesting, I didn't know that. The Received column date is derived > from Received headers, or I always thought it is, but even for messages > which do have the Received header the Received column is populated with > the date which corresponds to the date when the message was added into > an On This Computer folder. > That feels like a bug in the Maildir provider [1]. For example MBOX > (spool) provider doesn't suffer of this and derives the Received time > from the message headers. Yes it does feel like a bug, Date does not suffer from this bug though. One annoying "feature" using "Copy Folder To" is that I can mark my toplevel Folders dir. but I cannot select "On This Computer" to store it on the same level. I would be happy to test a patch fixing the Received bug as we soon will have limited storage in Exchange and I want to store a local copy before that happens. Jocke _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
