[plug] Evolution -> kde pim migration

[Brad Campbell]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> I ask this here as I'm getting to a loose, frayed end..
> 
> I have a fairly detailed calendar and about 4.5k contacts in Evolution 2.2
> 
> Due to the development of multisync grinding to a halt and it's complete 
> inability to sync with Evolution 2.x I'm looking at migrating to the KDE 
> Pim Apps.
> 
> Problem is I have no idea how to get my calendar data out of evolution 
> and into KDE. When I migrated from Exchange initially it was a piece of 
> cake, I just used the evolution exchange connector. Unfortunately I 
> don't have exchange at my disposal anymore..

6 hours later...
As it turns out, Evo 2 stores its calendar in a reasonably standard ics format.. it's recurring 
events are not compatible with Korganiser, however a bit of "quick" python sees that converted 
reasonably accurately.

As for the contact database.. set up a temporary mail server and configure an account to use it in 
Evo. Select all in the contact screen and then "Send Contact" will generate an E-mail with the 
entire contact database as a multiple vcard file.

Used mutt on the mail server to grab the attachment from the mailbox. Now I have my contacts out, 
have not got as far as trying to shoehorn them into kontact yet as my kde install is borked. kontact 
dies, but korganiser runs..

Nearly there...

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