I am running Fedora core 3 and using Evolution for email. I have a new computer and I want to save all my emails and use evolution on the new computer.
The new computer has Xandros on it. I did burn a copy of my home directory and I copied it to another computer that I have here, but it totaled my distro. I was using Kanotix on that one. Possibly if I hadn't copied everything to the home directory on Kanotix it wouldn't have crashed. I had to reinstall.
Can anyone point me to a place where I can read up on this. I would think that I could merely copy the the hidden .evolution files it might work.
Thanks

I don't know if this is correct for your setup since I've never used the applications you're mentioning (I'm using sendmail in a debian distro), but since you're saying that you have a backup of your home and your mail is not there I figure you had it stored elsewhere?

My inbox mail are stored in: /var/mail/username

The INBOX.Trash, INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Drafts are stored in my homedirectory ~/mail/

If I was to copy my mail from one machine to the other I would just copy those files and setup the mail applications as I did the first time.

You might also want to look in ~/Mail. That's where Kmail keeps it.

--Dane

Thanks for the replies. My mail is working on on FC3. Just wanted to install Evolution on the new computer and still keep all my emails and etc.
I 'think' I can install evolution on the new computer and then copy the hidden .evolution mbx files to the new home directory. I am thinking that I will have to come up with a version of evolution that is compatable with Xandros, which is on the new computer, but not sure.
I have googled and looked for info on this but came up empty. However, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Looks like I will just have to try it and see what gets hosed.....