[ale] Evolution data migration to a new install

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:09 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Could not find anything on a proper way to do this. I have a Debian box
> with Evolution 2.6.3 that is my original box. I have built a new box
> with Gentoo running Evolution 2.8.3. Does anyone have a reliable method
> of transferring all of the data from one Evolution install to the next?
> Surely, there is a utility somewhere that can reliably do this since it
> does not appear it was built into Evolution. I have tried rsyncs and
> copying various databases over to no avail.

Evolution stores email in mbox format. Additionally there are some index
files for each mbox.  If you move just the mbox files to
the .evolution/mail/local directory you should be able to start
Evolution and it will re-build all the indexes.  I haven't done this
with 2.8.3 yet, but I did do it with 2.8.1 on Ubuntu Edgy.

-Jim P.