Backing up Evolution emails and account information

Tue Apr 5 17:53:26 UTC 2005

On Apr 5, 2005 1:18 PM, Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:17 -0400, jim lawrence wrote:
> > I believe you can copy the .evolution folder  from your home directory
> > this folder has everything for evolution pertaining to your account
> 
> Nope. Passwords and some other info are stored by gconf-something. Check
> the archives [1] for an older thread in which I participated and where a
> couple of people explained it well. But you need to back up two things,
> the .evolution directory and an exported set of stuff from gconf-
> something.
> 

.gconf/evolution and .evolution are both needed I believe.