migrating to the new evolution
Williams Jr, Ernest L.
ernesto at ornl.gov
Mon Oct 11 12:47:36 UTC 2004
-----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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