looking for a way to shift evolution mail and all settings from FC4 to FC6
Ski Dawg
fedora at skidawg.org
Mon Dec 11 05:16:58 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:25 +1030, Tim wrote:
> What I haven't managed to figure out, or find an answer to, is how to shift his
> evolution mail, contacts, settings, etc., over to the new box. Copying
> the .evolution folder over hasn't done the trick. The import feature
> doesn't seem to want to know about importing from evolution, just other
> mail clients. Can anybody point in the right direction?
You are right. Just copying the .evolution folder will only get the
messages, but not the settings.
I got some links for doing this from the evolution mail list. Someone (I
can't remember who), has written a script to backup your current mail
and settings into a tar file. Then you can move the tar file over,
follow its instructions, and everything will be restored. I have used
this several times with great success.
http://www.tux-planet.fr/blog/?2006/05/19/76-evolution-backup-script
(scroll down for the English version)
I also found this that could be useful.
http://koolinus.wordpress.com/2006/04/23/evolution-how-to-backup/
HTH,
--
Doug
Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
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