On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:58 -0700, John R. Carter, Sr. wrote: > On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:38 PM, William Case wrote: > > > I had backed up Evo as of yesterday so when I restored I got back most > > of my configuration of Evo, plus mail etc. but by doing so I have > > eliminated a day's worth of mail. Todays mail has been saved in a > > separate rsync backup. My ISP is a POP3, SMTP account. > > > Is there any way I can merge the rsync backup mail with the restored > > Evo > > mail > > At this point in time, I don't even know where my mail messages are > kept. If Evo is anything like Thunderbird, you'll have a folder with > all your messages in it. There might also be a file that contains > pointers or other record keeping on each folder. What I do in > Thunderbird is to delete that record keeping folder and concatenate an > old mail folder with a new one and restart Thunderbird. > > > > > or is there a way to retrieve a days worth of read mail from my > > ISP? > > If Evo doesn't have information about that mail that is on the ISP > stored in a record keeping file somewhere, it will think it is new > mail and read it again. > > Don't really know how Evo mail is stored, so this is only a guess. > > Since you were able to rsync your Evo mail, maybe you can tell me > where you found it? >
I rsync ~/.evolution which contains everything but the gconf configuration files. I am not sure about IMAP; it uses a separate mbox. If you are using a POP3 ISP service all mail is stored in ~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox and other message filtered accounts. > > > > John -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
