!!! Evolution version
Any hints from you loudmouth Klaus, the Linux Wolf :D?
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 05:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 16:08 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:49:10 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> >
> > > Hi D6 is shipped with Evolution 2.30.3, the last version I was using was
> > > 2.32 and I backed up every thing , but now it wont restore, the tar file
> > > is OK, I suspect it knows the version difference and wont play. Is there
> > > a late version of Evolution available as a.deb so I can have the old
> > > mail onthis system ?
>
> Somewhere in the debian users mailing list archive there is a
> complicated way to handle this issue. We had problems to import our
> mails, even when we used the same versions of Evolution version 2.
> See the Forwarded messages, you need to search for this thread.
>
> > Hum... 2.30 and 2.32 look very "close in time" versions but true is that
> > something could have changed in between (like mail storage format, from
> > mbox to maildir, but I think this happened since 3.0 not with 2.32
> > branch) but I would try to get additional information on the error by
> > launching Evolution from command line and then try to restore the backup
> > file.
>
> Correct, mbox to maildir happened from version 2 to version 3.
>
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>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better
> performance than Ubuntu
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
>
> 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. :-)
>
> > 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.
>
> > 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.
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