On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 23:29 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Adam Tauno Williams >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 04:54 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote: >> >> Hi I know this is not direclty related to hacking on evolution, but I >> >> would like to ask one advice. >> >> I have about 5Gb of e-mails on my laptop which I use for work, and it >> >> is still on evolution 2.26.3. >> >> I would like to migrate now this stuff to evolution 3.6.x >> >> What is the best way to do that ? >> >> Simply upgrading evolution seems not to work, as it starts the wizard >> >> as if .evolution dir doesnt exist. >> > >> > If all you want to do is mail then it seems like it wouldn't be a bad >> > idea to make an 'external' local account (maildir or mbox [not certain >> > what is available in 2.26]) and then just copy all your mail. Upgrade. >> > 'Reconnect' the new evolution to that account. >> Ok how can I do that external account ? You mean use something else >> like Thunderbird ? > > No, I mean you can make an account in Evolution that stores mail locally > in a 'standard' format like MBOX or MailDir. You specify a directory > and mail and mailboxes are stored in that format there. Then you can > just drag the mail from your "On this computer" mailbox (assuming you > are POP'ing into that from somewhere). Then you have the mail 'outside > of Evolution'. And the new version of Evolution can look in the same > place for mail; you can either copy it back into on-this-computer > [assuming it doesn't transfer automatically] after you upgrade, or just > continue using the 'external' mail store. > > I believe this is an option for 2.26, which I certain could do at least > MBOX, if no MH. But I don't really remember the 2.x series that well > [it has been a long time].
Ok all my mail is pop and its stored on my few computers, I rsync them arround. So all I have is a huge .evolution directory, with all what is made and used by evolution-2.26.3 . I will try your suggestion. Rgds Saxa _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
