Evolution email client

comcastuser · 08-17-2007, 02:53 PM

What's the best technique for copying the account, config files and user's email from one system to another (with the exact same version of Evolution)?

I copied the whole .evolution directory but upon starting evolution, it asks you to set everything up all over again.

Is there something else I need to copy?

J.W. · 08-18-2007, 01:27 AM

I've only done this once before, but IIRC set up everything first, *then* copy over all your Emails. No guarantees but I think that's what I did and it seemed to work

comcastuser · 09-15-2007, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by J.W.

I've only done this once before, but IIRC set up everything first, *then* copy over all your Emails. No guarantees but I think that's what I did and it seemed to work

What didn't seem to get copied over were the POP settings. Argh. Why would that be in another directory besides ~/.evolution?

comcastuser · 09-15-2007, 07:46 PM

Ok this REALLY got on my nerves today, so I went and begged on IRC.

I got pointed to this.

http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_...p_evolution.3F

This actually appears to have worked for me.