Backing up Evolution emails and account information

[Paul Howarth]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:17 -0400, jim lawrence wrote:
> 
>>I believe you can copy the .evolution folder  from your home directory
>>this folder has everything for evolution pertaining to your account
> 
> 
> Nope. Passwords and some other info are stored by gconf-something. Check
> the archives [1] for an older thread in which I participated and where a
> couple of people explained it well. But you need to back up two things,
> the .evolution directory and an exported set of stuff from gconf-
> something.
> 
> [1] Check the archives for both fedora-list and fedora-test-list. And
> please, use MARC (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com) to save your sanity...
> the Red Hat archives are useless.

How about this:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-October/msg02660.html

Which was the first hit on this search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=evolution+backup+fedora-list+gconf

It's not the thread you were referring to but it does appear to have an 
answer.

Paul.