On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 17:24 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > 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.
hmm, while playing with Copy Folder to I get a lot of: Error while Copying folder Folders/DevPPC. Failed to move message cache file. On a folder with mail going back to 2009, guess some of these mails are "corrupt" in some way but I cannot tell which ones. 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
