[plug] Evolution -> kde pim migration

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 02:26 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 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...

Have you got any further with this, Brad?

It's something I've been considering for a while, but didn't really want
to jump feet-first into, without some planning.  

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>

There are II types of people - those who can count like Romans and
those who can't.

Linux Counter user #306629