----- Original Message ----- > From: "Milan Crha" <[email protected]> > To: "evolution-list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 6:18:22 AM > Subject: Re: [Evolution] IMAP server dead, but evolution has my emails
> On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 17:39 -0500, Greg Oliver wrote: >> >> My mail server did some nasty things the other night, and I was >> forced to rebuild without a backup to restore. Most users were ok >> since they had cached copies of their emails, and could copy them to >> local folders, and the re-create the server in their client and copy >> them to the server's folders. >> >> I have a predicament where all of my mail is still in >> ~/.cache/evolution/mail....., but evolution will not let me copy the >> messages to local folders from the GUI since the IMAP server is >> offline (I am doing all of this unconnected, and not accepting the >> new cert for the new machine), so I cannot easily move them back and >> forth. > > Hi, > while running evolution on a disconnected machine might work the same, > try to run evolution from a terminal like this: > $ evolution --offline > That will start evolution in offline mode, thus showing you only > offline data. I do not know your evolution version, but I suppose > it'll work too, especially if it's something like 3.12.4+ [1]. > > Otherwise create a Maildir account, pointing to some local directory. > Create a folder in it in the evolution's UI, which will be reflected > in that local directory. Then copy files from > ~/.cache/evolution/mail/<imap-account-uid>/folders/... > to the > <path-to-local-maildir>/.subfolder/new > directory, and then refresh the folder view in the evolution. It'll > move the messages from the 'new' directory to the 'cur' directory and > show them as available in the UI. It's laborious, because a need of > doing it folder by folder, unfortunately. Also delete and expunge the > *Maildir's* messages from the evolution's UI to not mix folder's > content. > > Definitely make a copy of the ~/.cache/evolution/mail/<imap-account>/ > before doing anything with the underlying files, thus you'd not lose > anything. > > Hope it helps, > Milan > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729848 Hi, Thanks for the reply - I was able to accomplish it by highlighting all of the emails and saving as mbox and opening in local folders and then dragging back to my IMAP account once I was back on-line. -Greg _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
