On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:15:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Yes, thank you very much, your howto needed a little upgrade. > > Restore e-mail account settings. > -------------------------------- > > - Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account. > > - Close Evolution. > > - From terminal execute `ps ux | grep evolution` to see what Evolution > related processes are runing. Kill all of them. > > - Overwrite the content of /home/<useraccount>/.evolution/mail/ folder > with the content from the corresponding original folder. > > For Ubuntu Natty and Debian stable it's not ~/.evolution anymore! > > # cp > -pr /<mount>/home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution/mail > /home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution > > - From original /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/% > gconf.xml file > copy content of all <li type="string"> *** </li> entries between <entry > name="accounts" mtime="1305671823" type="list" ltype="string"> and its > final </entry> tag to the newly > generated /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/ evolution/mail/%gconf.xml > file. For best result restart computer before starting Evolution. > > If the accountname would differ or one Evolution still does use > ~/.evolution, than you've got a lot to edit. I run > > # cp -p /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/% > gconf.xml /home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml I'm not sure for Ubuntu Natty, I'll take a look tomorrow. What's to Debian Squeeze 6.01, it's still ~/.evolution on my system. > OTOH it should be possible to use 1 partition for the emails and to get > access by Evolution from different installs, assumed that the mount > points do have the same path names, but I didn't really verified this > ;). I'm going to investigate such an option too. When (or if?) I have time for it. :-) > Just doing this all filters get lost, there was a message regarding to > junk, mails that should not be shown by threads are shown by threads, > anyway, I got the mails. Did you mean newsgroup filters? I did not get this trouble since I've never used Evolution as my newsgroup reader. I use Pan instead. But I did not loose any of my e-mail filters. > PS: Sending from the 'new' Evolution. I'm glad it worked for you. And thanks for sharing back. I'll add your updates to my records. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/is4ksf$plt$1...@dough.gmane.org
