More on Evolution 3.2.3 in Suse 12.1

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#1

This is a followup to a question I sent earlier today. I have now found
the directories which contain the e-mail data and have moved them to
my larger disk. So far so good, but…

  1. i cannot find a way to do a sort solely on date. If I sort on the
    date, I seem to get a subsort on subject even if the subject sort
    seems to be off (the caret not up OR down). How do I do a pure date
    sort? Also, if I delete a message, the pointer sometimes hops to
    another part of the list rather than just moving down to the next item. I
    assume this may be related to the weird sort.

  2. The file structure for storing e-mails is different in the new 3.2.3 evolution
    than whatever version was in Suse 11.3 (which I updated from).
    Do I have do import every mailbox from the old to the new version
    one-by-one?? Or is there something that will automatically update
    my files from the “old” format to the “new”?

Thanks,

Larry1019

#2

How did you back up your files and settings? If you used the tool in Evolution, evo should restore these to the new system.

#3

I have a “system” disk and a big “work” disk. In Suse 11.3, I had
the data files set up so that the ~/.evolution file on my system disk
pointed to the e-mail files on the work disk.

When I upgraded to Suse 12.1, I yanked out the “system” disk,
built 12.1 on a new “system” disk and copied my old /home directory
from the 11.3 disk to the new 12.1 disk. So I now had a new copy
of evolution and a soft pointer (~/.evolution) to my (unchanged) work disk.

When I started the new evolution it didn’t see the pointer. I have now
setup soft pointers in my home directory to the work disk for the new evolution,
but I apparently have to import all the old stuff into the new because the file
structure for e-mail files has changed. And, as I said,
I can’t get my inbox to sort “properly”.

What is this “tool in evolution” you referred to???

Larry1019

#4

I don’t know if this will work but it’s worth trying. Create a tarball including your .evolution and .camel_certs directories,

tar -czf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .camel_certs

Import the tarball into Evolution from File->Restore Evolution Data.

#5

I tried it, but when I selected the tar file, evolution appeared to hang up. I gave it a couple of hours
and nothing happened, so I killed it.

Actually, since I can import files one mailbox at a time, I’m more concerned about the order that
messages appear in and the related problem that if I delete a message, the pointer sometimes hops
to somewhere else in the file rather than moving down to the next message. If I can’t fix that, I think
I’m going to try some other mailer (Kmail?).

Larry1019