migrating to the new evolution

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Sun Oct 10 11:58:24 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 10:34 +0100, Keith Sharp wrote:
> 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.  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.

Or just use the IMAP account -- that is the beauty of it, you can just
use about any mail client and don't have much hassle switching between
them.

Nils
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