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. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Juan R. de Silva <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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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