Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 06:06 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:15:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>
> > Yes, thank you very much, your howto needed a little upgrade.
> >
> > Restore e-mail account settings.
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > - Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account.
> >
> > - Close Evolution.
> >
> > - From terminal execute `ps ux | grep evolution` to see what Evolution
> > related processes are runing. Kill all of them.
> >
> > - Overwrite the content of /home/<useraccount>/.evolution/mail/ folder
> > with the content from the corresponding original folder.
> >
> > For Ubuntu Natty and Debian stable it's not ~/.evolution anymore!
> >
> > # cp
> > -pr /<mount>/home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution/mail
> > /home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution
> >
> > - From original /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%
> > gconf.xml file
> > copy content of all <li type="string"> *** </li> entries between <entry
> > name="accounts" mtime="1305671823" type="list" ltype="string"> and its
> > final </entry> tag to the newly
> > generated /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/ evolution/mail/%gconf.xml
> > file. For best result restart computer before starting Evolution.
> >
> > If the accountname would differ or one Evolution still does use
> > ~/.evolution, than you've got a lot to edit. I run
> >
> > # cp -p /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%
> > gconf.xml /home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml
>
> I'm not sure for Ubuntu Natty, I'll take a look tomorrow. What's to
> Debian Squeeze 6.01, it's still ~/.evolution on my system.
>
> > OTOH it should be possible to use 1 partition for the emails and to get
> > access by Evolution from different installs, assumed that the mount
> > points do have the same path names, but I didn't really verified this
> > ;).
>
> I'm going to investigate such an option too. When (or if?) I have time
> for it. :-)
"When (or if?) I have time for it." +1 But I've too much else to do,
OTOH at the moment I'm jobless (hopefully this will change soon ;),
hence it could be, that I will find some time.
>
> > Just doing this all filters get lost, there was a message regarding to
> > junk, mails that should not be shown by threads are shown by threads,
> > anyway, I got the mails.
>
> Did you mean newsgroup filters? I did not get this trouble since I've
> never used Evolution as my newsgroup reader. I use Pan instead.
>
> But I did not loose any of my e-mail filters.
Perhaps I lost the email filter, because I didn't follow all of your
howto.
> > PS: Sending from the 'new' Evolution.
>
> I'm glad it worked for you. And thanks for sharing back. I'll add your
> updates to my records.
Again, thank you :)
Ralf
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