migrating to the new evolution

[Scott Talbot]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 17:35 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 22:14 +0100, Keith Sharp wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:18 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am normally a heavy evolution user.
> > > 
> > > What is the manual procedure to move an addressbook from an older
> > > version to the new version?
> > > 
> > > I would also like to move some of my old e-mail folders into the new
> > > version of evolution.  
> > > 
> > > I used to have a directory:  $(HOME)/evolution
> > > Now I have: $(HOME)/.evolution
> > 
> > The first time you run the new Evolution it should migrate everything
> > for you.  Once it has done the migration it asks if you want to
> > automatically delete your old ${HOME}/evolution folder or would you like
> > to do it later yourself.
> > 
> > If this has not happened for you, then search back through the list for
> > posts by Dave Malcolm of Red Hat who described how to change a value in
> > GConf to force Evolution to try the migration again.
> 
> Okay, that worked great.
> Now, I would like to move a mail folder from one machine to another.
> How does one do that?  I have 3 different folders on my desktop machine
> and would like to move one of the folders to my laptop.
> 
> When I look at the directory/file structure of the .evolution everything
> looks encoded.  I can't make heads nor tails.
> 
> Would be nice if evolution would allow me to import mail from evolution.
> 
> Is it possible to archive an evolution folder on one machine and import
> to evolution on another?
> 
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

> > 
> > Keith.
> > 

	IIRC if you highlight the messages and select File-->Save_As, you can
use the import function in evolution 2.0 . Also the older evolution
supported exporting vcard for your contacts (calendars, I think you
might be out of luck, though I never tried.

Scott