how to move email to new system

[Scott Lockwood]

Not only that, but is it really hard to do this (I.E. move email to a new
system)? I have backed up my evolution data store and restored it to a
different machine LOTS of times, never with any difficulty. In fact, the one
time I lost a massive amount of data was when I made the mistake of pushing
my mailstore up to an IMAP server that then crashed. Fortunately, I had
backups on DVD-R of my stuff, mostly, and only ended up losing a few days.

Here's how I back up my evolution:

# rsync -avzP .evolution remote_machine:

Here's how I restore evolution if necessary:

# rsync -avzP remote_machine:~/.evolution .

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Derek Broughton
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 8:57 AM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: how to move email to new system

Default User wrote:

> Extra credit question: why do email programs not store email messages as
> normal text files? 

I'll go for the extra credit, since I don't know anything about Evolution.  

Almost all mail programs DO store email in normal text files.  There are two
standard formats: mbox, where all messages are stored in a single file; and
maildir, where each message is in its own file within a subdirectory (.cur
or .new) of a folder.

If Evolution doesn't use one of these formats by default, I'd be really
surprised if it couldn't.
-- 
derek


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