moving email from fc4 to fc5 in evolution
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sun May 14 19:25:41 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:18 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>
> I was upgrading from FC3 to FC5. When I went to import my inbox, with
> about 6 months of recent mail, Evolution crashed. It didn't crash on
> other mail files of comparable size, just inbox. I tried various things
> but it crashed repeatedly. Luckily, I had a machine that I had left at
> FC3 until my other upgrades were completed. I was able to bring up my
> email inbox on that machine and break it up into smaller pieces that I
> successfully imported.
>
> The crashes occurred in the very first part of the import, while
> Evolution was discovering the format of the mail file.
>
> BTW, Evolution did not recognize my FC3 mail data and there was no way
> to point to it for multi-file import. I had to do it as individual
> files.
Things like that are why I use imap.
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