On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 11:20 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Dnia 20.05.2022 o godz. 10:02:32 Pete Biggs pisze: > > > > Your primary problem is that it's not backward compatible. You can't > > "restore" a backup made on 3.42 to Evolution 3.36. Things change > > between versions - things like database tables, file structure and so > > on. > > I wonder, why Evolution can't store emails simply in mbox or Maildir format?
It does. It uses Maildir. > > Of course, some additional files containing indexes etc. can and probably > should be used to speed up access to messages, but at least the basic email > storage would be compatible. Yes, and that's the issue. It's the configuration and indexing databases that evolve. > > Thunderbird seems to use (or at least have used in the past, I haven't used > Thunderbird for a long time) this approach, its mail storage is basically > mbox files plus index files. As far as I remember, old versions of > Evolution (I mean those used in GNOME 2) used similar approach too. I guess > Maildir is more efficient than mbox, so nowadays rather Maildir should be > used. But I think that storing messages in a completely internal database > format is not a very good idea. Evolution doesn't store messages in a database. Every installation of Evolution has, or should have, the internal help files installed. That has sections not only on Backup/Restore and syncing data, but also a section on storage locations. For local "On this Computer" mail, then look in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/ Please, though, don't go modifying or playing with Evolution's internal files. It will confuse things and will likely lead to data loss. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
