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Hi,
I am using Evolution and I'm trying to safe my mails from an account which server is permanently offline.
The mails I can read in Evolution when clicking on the account as they were received already when the server was still online.
When I click "Copy to Folder..." I get following error message:
Error while Copying messages to “folder://local/Archive/Inbox”.
Could not connect to imap.example.com: Socket I/O timed out
Does anyone know how I can copy the messages to my local archive?
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I don't use Evolution but I'll throw out some ideas you could try if you want to try something while you wait for a more informed answer:
Find where evolution stores data and back it up. (maybe ~/.evolution)
Try selecting individual messages (even if you select all of them individually with Ctrl-a or first-to-last-shift-clicking) and Ctrl-c / Ctrl-v to copy paste instead of the whole folder (if that's what you were trying). Maybe Evolution won't feel the need to try to connect to the server then. On that note is there an "offline mode"? Does disconnecting from the network change anything?
See if Evolution has a way to import/export messages. Export and then import back into the folder you want
Compare the data format between Evolution and Thunderbird (or another mail client). Perhaps it's the same or similar and you can manually transfer the files over and export them from Thunderbird. Maybe Thunderbird (or another mail client) has a way to directly import Evolution's files if you first find them on disk. There exists a (apparently a family of) formats for email:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox
https://man.archlinux.org/man/mbox.5.en
Edit: if you do any export import stuff (especially manually) check that attachments were handled well before deleting your backup (if you even do delete it).
Last edited by iith4ahm (2024-02-07 01:18:39)
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