Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread Pete Biggs
> In playing with the trial installation > on another box, I've verified that Evo doesn't recognize > importing of those elements from previous Evo versions. Not exactly true. When upgrading, Evo will upgrade data from previous versions if necessary. However I fear that what you are trying to d

Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread Art Alexion
Why would you install 8.10? The current version is 9.04, and the long term support release is 8.04. -- Art Alexion MIS/Central Office Support Resources for Human Development - Original Message - From: evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org To: evolution-list@gnome.org Sent: Wed Apr 29 22:28

Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread Art Alexion
Lastly, when you say "upgrade", are you seriously considering trying to install a relatively new Debian based distro on top of a very old rpm based distro? If so, I predict nightmares, an unbootable system and data loss. If you just mean that you are going to replace the system and are planning

Re: [Evolution] migration/Biggs

2009-04-30 Thread bg
bg: > > In playing with the trial installation > > on another box, I've verified that Evo doesn't recognize > > importing of those elements from previous Evo versions. Pete Biggs wrote: > Not exactly true. When upgrading, Evo will upgrade data from previous > versions if necessary. However I

Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 03:19, Art Alexion wrote: > Why would you install 8.10? The current version is 9.04, and the long term > support release is 8.04. bg: According to what I thought I saw when I first visited the Ubuntu site a few weeks ago, 8.10 was listed as the latest LTS release. It's also

Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread Art Alexion
8.04 is the LTS release. 8.10 is 1/3 of the way through its 18 month support cycle, superseded by the current 9.04. -- Art Alexion MIS/Central Office Support Resources for Human Development - Original Message - From: evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org To: evolution-list@gnome.org Sent:

Re: [Evolution] migration/alexion

2009-04-30 Thread bg
Art Alexion wrote: > Lastly, when you say "upgrade", are you seriously considering trying to > install > a relatively new Debian based distro on top of a very old rpm based distro? bg: Not at all - I used the word in the generic, not the technical sense. I figure to install Ubuntu separately, f

Re: [Evolution] migration

2009-04-30 Thread Pete Biggs
> > That would make sense. My observation was predicated on what Evo offers > when you select import - it appeared to list every email client *but* > Evo. I can certainly understand that there may have been significant > alterations to the data structures between the two releases. I've > always f

Re: [Evolution] migration/biggs

2009-04-30 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 06:09, Pete Biggs wrote: > As someone else said, the best way would be to upload all your mail to > an IMAP server and then re-download it to your new installation - you > could possibly set up your own IMAP server locally to do it. bg: That's doable - I already have a se

Re: [Evolution] migration/alexion

2009-04-30 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 09:04 -0400, bg wrote: > > Sounds like some good strategies. A question, though; in looking > through > all the operating elements of my 1.4 Evo, I don't see that it offers > any "export" choices - what do I do to get the Contacts saved as > a .csv > file? Would that be a com

[Evolution] Evolution NOT Getting mail for Gmail?

2009-04-30 Thread Rick
There a new mail in my Gmail account, and when I have click on Send/Receive to Get messages, Evolution is Not Downloading them, even sent a test message, to myself and not received as of yet. All was fine...but not now. anyone? Richard ___ Evolution-

[Evolution] [Fwd: Re: Preview pane not updated after expunging]

2009-04-30 Thread Svante Signell
Seems like I cannot post from my telia address, using the kth one. Forwarded Message From: Svante Signell To: evolution-list Subject: Re: Preview pane not updated after expunging Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:40:25 +0200 On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 11:21 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > A

Re: [Evolution] Evolution NOT Getting mail for Gmail?

2009-04-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:06 -0400, Rick wrote: > There a new mail in my Gmail account, > and when I have click on Send/Receive to Get messages, > Evolution is Not Downloading them, even sent a test message, > to myself and not received as of yet. > > All was fine...but not now. > anyone? Without

Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread Brett Johnson
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 06:19 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > Why would you install 8.10? The current version is 9.04, and the long > term support release is 8.04. And if you're really concerned about evolution, ubuntu 8.10 includes evo 2.24, which is the most bug-riddled release of evolution I've ever