Changing from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS - importing all email settings and mail from 10.04/Evolution 2.28.3

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:45 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 12 July 2012 11:13, Andrew <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> > Running 10.04 LTS at present but now thinking of installing 12.04 LTS.
> > However, the email client in 12.04 (Thunderbird) looks a bit different
> > from the current one (Evolution 2.28.3)
> 
> It is, it's a different app.
> 
> However you can still install Evolution should you prefer it. Nobody
> is forcing you to move.
> 
> >  - so will I be able to import
> > all my email settings etc from the evolution-backup.tar.gz file produced
> > by Evolution 2.28.3?
> 
> No.
> 
> If you reinstall, just install Evolution when you're done.
> 
> If you upgrade, Evolution will still be your default email app afterwards.

It would probably be a good idea to use evolution's built-in backup
method (File -> Backup) on the old evolution and do a restore on the
new.  Lucid, for some reason came with an already obsolete version of
evolution; Precise uses a much newer one which uses a quite different
method of storing its data.  Evo's a pretty smart app and ordinarily it
just handles the transition between different versions of itself nicely,
but this is one case where it does not always work properly.


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pongo pan
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:02:10 -0700
Epicurus up 30 min, 1 user, load average: 0.91, 0.68, 0.65
Linux 3.2.0-26-generic
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, gnome-session 3.2.1, unity 5.12.0