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How to migrate from Evolution to Thunderbird/Icedove
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Here is a step by step procedure with script to migrate from Evolution
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to Thunderbird/Icedove. This will keep ALL datas (mail, calendar
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entries, tasks, contacts) as well as keeping mail status (important,
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read, replied, etc.) thanks to a script that I developed. This procedure
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has been done for Debian Sid but has command for Ubuntu Lucid as well.
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It was tested with Thunderbird/Icedove 3.1 and Evolution 2.28 to 2.32.
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1. Backup Evolution and prepare the migration
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---------------------------------------------
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### 1.1. Backup
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\- Put evolution in offline mode
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- Backup from the GUI or use :
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/usr/lib/evolution/2.32/evolution-backup --backup ~/USERNAME-evolution.tar.gz
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If it hangs you can kill it once you saw the following message :
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** Message: rm /home/letic/evolution.dir
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### 1.2. Export data that can’t be imported straight away
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Export all contacts from Evolution by right clicking on each addressbook
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->Save to vcard
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### 1.3. Disable completely Evolution
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- Logoff from the session (avoid issue with the clock applet)
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- Log in as the user in a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1)
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mkdir backup
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mv ~/.gconf/apps/evolution ~/backup/evolution_gconf
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# For Evolution >= 2.30
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mv ~/.config/evolution/ ~/backup/evolution_config
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mv ~/.local/share/evolution ~/backup/evolution_data
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# For Lucid (evolution 2.28
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mv ~/.evolution ~/backup/evolution_data
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This will make sure that you have no entries left in the calendar
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and that you won’t retrieve your mail by mistake in Evolution.
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2. Install Thunderbird/Icedove + lightning/iceowl + enigmail
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### 2.1. On debian
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- Install all required packages
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aptitude install icedove iceowl-extension
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- Optional packages :
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- enigmail for PGP support
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- icedove-l10n-XX and iceowl-l10n-XX where XX stands for your
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locale
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### 2.2. On Lucid
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It is a bit more annoying as the lightning extension is missing.
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- Install Thunderbird
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aptitude install thunderbird
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- Optional packages :
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- enigmail for PGP support
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- enigmail-locale-XX and thunderbird-locale-XX where XX stands for
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your locale
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- Install the lightning extension (no locales available in Ubuntu)
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- First you require xul-ext-calendar from natty
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wget "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//pool/universe/l/lightning-extension/xul-ext-calendar-timezones_1.0~b2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2_all.deb"
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dpkg -i xul-ext-calendar-timezones_1.0~b2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2_all.deb
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- Then for 32bits
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wget "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//pool/universe/l/lightning-extension/xul-ext-lightning_1.0~b2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2_i386.deb"
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dpkg -i xul-ext-lightning_1.0~b2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
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- Or for 64 bits
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wget "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//pool/universe/l/lightning-extension/xul-ext-lightning_1.0~b2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb"
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dpkg -i xul-ext-lightning_1.0~b2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
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It is always better to use the packaged version instead of the
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xpi from the addons website. Especially as there is no 64bits
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version of lightning available for download on the official
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website.
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3. Prepare Thunderbird/Icedove for the migration
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- Run Thunderbird/Icedove and create a fake imap access manually
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- Optional : set incoming/outgoing mail to UTF-8 in Edit ->
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Preferences ->Display ->Advanced
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### 3.1. Filtaquilla
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Filtaquilla is an addon that enhanced filters to be able to handle regex
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expressions and even javascript filters. These steps have to be done
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before importing the mail or the “x-evolution” header won’t be in the
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DB.
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- Go to Edit ->Preferences ->Advanced ->Config editor
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and search for the “mailnews.customDBHeaders” preference and set it
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to “x-evolution”
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- Get the Filtaquilla plugin from
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[here](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filtaquilla/)
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or run
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wget "https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/latest/10052/addon-10052-latest.xpi?src=addondetail" -O "filtaquilla-1.1.0-tb+sm.xpi"
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- In Tools ->Addons ->Filtaquilla ->Preferences check
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Javascript
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- Close Thunderbird/Icedove
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4. Migrating your data
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### 4.1. Mails
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- Copy mbox files
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cp -ax ~/backup/evolution_data/mail/local/* ~/.icedove/PROFILE/Mail/Local\ Folders/
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<!-- -->
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- Remove all unneeded files
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cd ~/.icedove/PROFILE/Mail/Local\ Folders/
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find . -name "*ibex*" -delete
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find . -name "*.cmeta" -delete
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rm -r folders.db .#evolution.sbd/ Outbox Templates
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<!-- -->
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- Optional : Convert your mail files to UTF-8
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**Be careful as this could do more harm than good !**
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- First check your mailboxes encoding
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find . -type f -exec file {} \;
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- Convert to UTF-8 (for example if ALL you mailboxes are
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ISO-8859-15)
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find . -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' FILE; do iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 "$FILE" > "$FILE.utf8"; mv "$FILE" "$FILE.old"; mv "$FILE.utf8" "$FILE"; done
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### 4.2. Mail status
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- Go to Tools ->Message Filters
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- Select “Local Folders” and add a new message filter :
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- Type : Javascript
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- Matches
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- Content
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logger = 'MESSAGE : ' + message.getStringProperty('subject') + '\n';
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let evohdr = message.getStringProperty('x-evolution');
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logger += 'THUNDERBIRD FLAGS BEFORE : ' + message.flags + '\n';
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evostatus = evohdr.substring(evohdr.length - 4, evohdr.length);
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logger += 'EVOLUTION HEXA : ' + evostatus + '\nSTATUS : \n';
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var hexevostatus = parseInt(evostatus, 16);
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var flags = message.flags;
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deleted = false;
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<0) {
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logger += ' * is answered\n';
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flags = flags | 1<<1
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}
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<1) {
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logger += ' * is deleted\n';
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deleted = true;
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}
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<3) {
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logger += ' * is marked as important\n';
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flags = flags | 1<<2
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}
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<4) {
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logger += ' * is read\n';
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flags = flags | 1<<0
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<5) {
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logger += ' * has attachment(s)\n';
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flags = flags | 1<<28
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<7) {
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logger += ' * is junk\n';
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message.setStringProperty('junkscore', 100);
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message.setStringProperty('junkscoreorigin','user');
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}
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<11) {
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logger += ' * has been marked as not junk (no action)\n';
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}
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if (hexevostatus & 1<<12) {
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logger += ' * has been forwarded\n';
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flags = flags | 1<<12
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message.flags = flags;
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logger += 'THUNDERBIRD FLAGS SET TO : ' + flags + '\n';
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logger +='WILL DELETE ? : ' + deleted;
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Cc["@mozilla.org/consoleservice;1"]
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.getService(Ci.nsIConsoleService)
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.logStringMessage(logger);
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- Action : Delete
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- Run the Javascript filter on all your imported folders to recover
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<table>
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<thead>
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<tr class="header">
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<th>Status in Evolution</th>
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<th>Action in Thunderbird/Icedove</th>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<td>Unread emails</td>
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<td>Do nothing</td>
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<td>Read emails</td>
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<td>Answered emails</td>
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<td>Forwarded emails</td>
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<td>Mark as transferred</td>
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<td>Manually set the junkscore to 100 and mark for deletion</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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part of the filter action. All these status are cumulative in both
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program even if Thunderbird/Icedove is the only one that actually
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display them. It will keep the flags set by Thunderbird/Icedove
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- Unfortunately there is no way to un a filter on several folders (or
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limited time to perform it this wasn’t done. The quickest way is to
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run through your mailbox with the keyboard and type “Alt+T” then R.
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- When restarting the program or clicking on another folder and back
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the folder’s read count will get updated EXCEPT if you selected the
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### 4.3. Contacts
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- Get the [More Functions for
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AddressBook](http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html)
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- Install the addon in Thunderbird/Icedove
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- Open the calendar and go to “Event and Tasks” ->Import.
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<sub>/backup/evolution\_data/calendar/\[local/\]system\ (if\ you\ have\ several\ you\ will\ find\ them\ in</sub>/backup/evolution\_data/calendar/\[local/\]XXXXXXXXXX.XXXX.X@YOURPC)
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### 4.7. Create your mail accounts
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That’s it you can now create your mail accounts in Thunderbird and get
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simple XSL to use with xsltproc should be easy to do if you really want
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<sub>/.icedove/PROFILE/Mail/Local\ Folders/msgFilterRules.dat,\ other\ POP\ accounts\ are\ in\ :</sub>/.icedove/PROFILE/Mail/POPACCOUNT/msgFilterRules.dat
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- [Evolution (Camel) Messages
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