[ale] Evolution Migration 1.4 -> 2.02

[Jerald Sheets]

You could do this:

Use Evo to save all your messages to an IMAP store.  Once you upgrade, pull
them all back local from that store, and then turn IMAP off.

That's how I do it, anyways...

--J 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Hubbs
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Evolution Migration 1.4 -> 2.02

That REALLY blows.  My previous Evolution instance must have tens of
thousands of messages in it (thanks, ALE!).  At least I can just keep the
old Evo folder around and grep/regexp through it.  

I'm also concerned that Evo has gone to this one-file-holds-all-messages
thing as opposed to how it used to be, when you could change it to
one-file-per-message.  Mozilla mail burned me before because it did that and
file corruption destroyed countless messages - in fact, that's what got me
to try Evo in the first place.  

Time to thumb nose at Evo and use something more sensible?

Jeff

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:46 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:03 +0000, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > The Evolution docs that I've seen don't cover this seemingly
straightforward operation:  moving folders and messages from a 1.4 instance
of Evolution to a 2.02 version.  Simply doing an initial run of Evo to set
the basic mail parameters and flying in the old ~/evolution folder in place
of the one that gets created does not work, nor does it work to compy the
old one into the new one.  Evo's import functions don't seem to deal with
this either.  What to do?
> > 
> > Jeff
> It is truly a PIA. The _ONLY_ way to migrate that works is to import 
> each individual mail file one at a time. I have about 35 different 
> mail folders. It was no fun. I guess they go too busy sleeping with 
> $Novell$ to be bothered with making a good upgrade path.
> 
> Oh, yeah. Doing an upgrade of the entire OS to a new one with evo2.x 
> won't do it either.
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