{"id":122,"date":"2007-09-20T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-09-20T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T15:31:13","slug":"a-new-tool-to-importexport-your-mail-and-settings-in-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/a-new-tool-to-importexport-your-mail-and-settings-in-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"A new tool to import\/export your mail and settings in Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was looking for a guide to export my mail and settings (my accounts, address book, calendar, filters, etc.) to my laptop and I found a few guides. I wondered why, as far as I know, there is no way to export my data in Evolution (my favourite email client)&#8230; then I asked myself whether I should depend on those guides every time I need to move to another OS or computer. Ok, a script that automates the whole operation already exists but I wanted something more flexible and I found it somewhat absurd that I had to read a guide or use a script to export my data. I just wanted a GUI which could save me the time to find the script (my hard disk is a mess) or to find and read a guide (is it laziness or just lack of time?).<\/p>\n<p>In the end I rolled up my sleeves and wrote a new application (in PyGTK) which will enable Evolution users to import and export (in a tar.gz file) their mail and settings in few mouse clicks.<\/p>\n<p>My application seems to work well however I haven&#8217;t paid much attention to the details of its interface yet. All the writings you can see in the 2 screenshots below are provisional. I haven&#8217;t decided yet which name I&#8217;ll give it and I haven&#8217;t made the (GPL) code available yet, however I thought I would show you these screen shots:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=120' rel='attachment wp-att-120' title='evol1.png'><img src='http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/evol1.thumbnail.png' alt='evol1.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=121' rel='attachment wp-att-121' title='evol2.png'><img src='http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/evol2.thumbnail.png' alt='evol2.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope to release it soon and, as usual, <strong>constructive<\/strong> criticism is welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> last night I found out that the next release of Evolution will have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/start\/2.20\/notes\/en\/\">new Backup\/Restore feature<\/a> therefore I&#8217;m glad to say that my application will become useless in GNOME 2.20. In the meantime you might want try my app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was looking for a guide to export my mail and settings (my accounts, address book, calendar, filters, etc.) to my laptop and I found a few guides. I wondered why, as far as I know, there is no way to export my data in Evolution (my favourite email client)&#8230; then <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/a-new-tool-to-importexport-your-mail-and-settings-in-evolution\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-planet","category-python","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}