how to move email to new system

[Alex Janssen]

Default User said the following on 06/17/2007 02:12 PM:
> Hello! 
>
> I am doing a new install of Ubuntu 7.04.  I would like to transfer the
> email from Evolution on a Debian system, to the Ubuntu system.  What is
> the best way to do that?  
>
> Extra credit question: why do email programs not store email messages as
> normal text files?  Or would that be too simple, be too easy to
> maintain, and make too much sense?  
>
> Thanks for any input. 
>   
Probably the easiest thing to do would be restore your ~/.evolution 
directory from backup after you finish installing 7.04.  Do this before 
starting evolution for the first time.  It should come up just like it 
used to on the old system.

Alex

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