migrating to the new evolution

[Williams Jr, Ernest L.]

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Keith Sharp
Sent: Sun 10/10/2004 5:34 AM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: Re: migrating to the new evolution
 
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 17:35 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

> Okay, that worked great.
> Now, I would like to move a mail folder from one machine to another.
> How does one do that?  I have 3 different folders on my desktop machine
> and would like to move one of the folders to my laptop.
> 
> When I look at the directory/file structure of the .evolution everything
> looks encoded.  I can't make heads nor tails.
> 
> Would be nice if evolution would allow me to import mail from evolution.
> 
> Is it possible to archive an evolution folder on one machine and import
> to evolution on another?

If you are using local email storage then the files in:

	${HOME}/.evolution/mail/local/

that have the same name as your folders in the GUI are just standard
mbox format files and can be imported into Evolution using the File ->
Import menu option.  

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Indeed, I am popping my mail from a POP3 mail server and it soring it locally on my system.

So for one of my folders I have the following:

${HOME}/.evolution/mail/local/WRS
${HOME}/.evolution/mail/local/WRS.cmeta
${HOME}/.evolution/mail/local/WRS.ev-summary
${HOME}/.evolution/mail/local/WRS.ibex.index
${HOME}/.evolution/mail/local/WRS.ibex.index.data

I will assume that file "WRS" is in mbox format.
Wow, that actually worked.   So I chose "WRS" for the import and all is well.


Thanks,
Ernesto







If you are using server side storage such as IMAP,
just create a new account in your other Evolution instance and drag a
drop your mails to where you want.

Keith.

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