I'm desperately trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4, but the one thing that's really causing me problems is migrating from Evolution 1.2.2 (bundled with RedHat 9) to 2.0.2 (bundled with CentOS 4.4.
When running Evolution 2.0.2 for the first time, with Evolution 1.2.2 folders and files in evolution folder in same partition, the automatic migration process starts up and seems to run OK, migrating all folders up to Sent folder successfully. Then disaster - it terminates fatally (error message "..quit unexpectedly..." - no indication of what the problem is).
I've even thought about installing Evolution 1.2.2 in CentOS 4.4 (because it works OK for my purposes!), but there are too many problems with this - even though I have the Evolution 1.2.2 rpm, it won't install in CentOS because of missing packages. I really want to upgrade my main system to CentOS 4.4 for the improvements it offers over RedHat 9, but this email thing is a real sticking point at the moment.
Is this a known problem or bug with the migration process - should I give up trying to do this, forget about all my previous email stuff and just start again with Evolution 2.0.2?
Any suggestions please?
Andy
On 30 May 2007 11:19:56 +0100, Andy Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
I'm desperately trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4, but the one thing that's really causing me problems is migrating from Evolution 1.2.2 (bundled with RedHat 9) to 2.0.2 (bundled with CentOS 4.4.
When running Evolution 2.0.2 for the first time, with Evolution 1.2.2 folders and files in evolution folder in same partition, the automatic migration process starts up and seems to run OK, migrating all folders up to Sent folder successfully. Then disaster - it terminates fatally (error message "..quit unexpectedly..." - no indication of what the problem is).
I've even thought about installing Evolution 1.2.2 in CentOS 4.4 (because it works OK for my purposes!), but there are too many problems with this - even though I have the Evolution 1.2.2 rpm, it won't install in CentOS because of missing packages. I really want to upgrade my main system to CentOS 4.4 for the improvements it offers over RedHat 9, but this email thing is a real sticking point at the moment.
Is this a known problem or bug with the migration process - should I give up trying to do this, forget about all my previous email stuff and just start again with Evolution 2.0.2?
Any suggestions please?
Andy
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open your redhat 9 evolution open your folder select all messages now select file - save as
this will export your emails to that file send that file to centos with the new evolution and import that file to your folder .
now that you are there you can test Mozilla Thunderbird. to import your mail to Thunderbird copy the saved file to .thunderbird/YOURUSER.default/Mail/Local Folders
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:19 +0100, Andy Allen wrote:
I'm desperately trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4, but the one thing that's really causing me problems is migrating from Evolution 1.2.2 (bundled with RedHat 9) to 2.0.2 (bundled with CentOS 4.4.
When running Evolution 2.0.2 for the first time, with Evolution 1.2.2 folders and files in evolution folder in same partition, the automatic migration process starts up and seems to run OK, migrating all folders up to Sent folder successfully. Then disaster - it terminates fatally (error message "..quit unexpectedly..." - no indication of what the problem is).
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I had a problem at one point with Evolution running out of file handles. I had to increase both hard and soft limits in /etc/security/limits.conf When I took them up from default of 1024 to 2048 Evolution started behaving. This was on Fedora, not CentOS, but since they are related it may work for you.
Rich
Andy
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'm desperately trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4, but the one thing that's really causing me problems is migrating from Evolution 1.2.2 (bundled with RedHat 9) to 2.0.2 (bundled with CentOS 4.4.
If you have an IMAP server handy, you could copy all of your mail to an IMAP server, probably one folder at a time, and then access these IMAP folders from your new install, and pull your mail back down into local folders.
Barry
Andy Allen wrote:
Is this a known problem or bug with the migration process - should I give up trying to do this, forget about all my previous email stuff and just start again with Evolution 2.0.2?
Any suggestions please?
The nicest way to deal with mail client changes is to find another machine where you can set up an IMAP server if you don't already have one. Then connect your existing client to an account there, make equivalent folders, and select and drag your old email to them. Then you can subsequently connect any IMAP aware client to that account and see the same email without having to worry about versions or storage formats.
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