CentOS - May 2007 - Desperate to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4

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 at 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



-- 
Leonel

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).
> 
<snip>

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 
> 
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Rich Huff <rich at richhuff.com>

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the reply - I take your point! I'll try moving the Sent
folder elsewhere as you suggest and see if that fixes the problem -
great if it does.

Andy

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:38, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The reason you aren't getting much help is because these versions are
> ancient.  The people who knew about them worked for Ximian, then Ximian
> was bought by Novel, and the people who worked on Evolution at the time
> have since been deployed elsewhere.
> 
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Try moving the Sent folder from ~/evolution and see if it upgrades
> everything successfully.  Once you have the bulk of the system in place
> you can import the Sent folder later - it is just an mbox file afterall.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Why don't you upgrade to CentOS 5 ?
> 
> P.
> 
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> 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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com

>Message: 70
>Date: 30 May 2007 11:19:56 +0100
>From: Andy Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net>
>Subject: [CentOS] Desperate to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4
>To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>,    General Red Hat
List
>        <redhat-list at redhat.com>,       Evolution Mailing List
>        <evolution-list at gnome.org>
>Message-ID: <1180520396.3019.43.camel at localhost.localdomain>
>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.
Andy: I am using Evolution 2.0.2 on CentOS 4.4. When I upgrade to a
newer release, I have *never* been able to get the Evolution Import
routine to work for me. Importing from Evolution to Evolution has never
seemed to work. I do it manually. I just read your post, several days
after you posted. I have Custom mailboxes and I import everything, mail
boxes, address book; one file at a time and I'm up and running in 10 or
15 minutes, with the newer version of Evolution. If you have not yet
solved the problem, please post again and I will find my notes on this
and try to help you.

BTW, please do not cross post. Post in one mailing list and hopefully
you will get an answer that works for you. If not, post somewhere else.

Lanny in Colombia