Comments on: How to Backup Evolution

By: Stephan van Ingen

Stephan van Ingen — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:24:01 +0000

Carl: maybe you installed it with another end-user-language? Folder names change then and I think messages are in another folder tree (user@localhost…): possible?

By: drumdotcom777

drumdotcom777 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:07:26 +0000

I recently lost my computer to the processor being damaged. I managed to save the hard drive which has my copy of evolution mail. When I installed Ubuntu on my new computer, I am having trouble accessing my old email files.

Since I can’t open the files and do a proper back up, any advice on how I can restore my email box from the old “.evolution” folder in the home directory on the old hard drive?

By: Ray Deyoung

Ray Deyoung — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:10:13 +0000

Great, thanks for sharing this post.Thanks Again.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:59:29 +0000

I upgraded Ubuntu this evening, and all my Evolution mail is lost. Very strange. Can’t think why that would happen.

By: arkadaş

arkadaş — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:08:03 +0000

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ukrayna vizesi — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:46:39 +0000

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By: xvan

xvan — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:39:44 +0000

If you have a backup of your whole home, or at least of your ~/.gconf folder you can still create the evolution_setting.xml file by:

gconftool-2 –config-source=xml:readwrite:$(old_home)/.gconf –dump /apps/evolution > evolution_setting.xml

By: Bob Esponja

Bob Esponja — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:33:58 +0000

Great tutorial! Thank you very much very usefull, I lost al my emails some months ago, and was a really disaster for me. Bye!

By: vidyadhara buddhiraju

vidyadhara buddhiraju — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:51:33 +0000

I am doing something more under the hood kind of a thing.

You can add a new account in evolution
Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts -> Add

Type in whatever you care with no server information.

The go in back to the thing and edit receiving email. set server type to standard unix mbox spool directory.

And choose the directory where the mail files are located. in my case, the following directory ~/backup/.evolution/mail/local

And the thing picks up all of my old emails.

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