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- <sect1 id="importing-mail-and-settings">
- <title>Importing Your Old Email and Settings</title>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> allows you to import old email and data so that you don't need to worry about losing your old information.
- </para>
- <sect2 id="importing-mail">
- <title>Importing Email</title>
- <para>
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> can import the following types of
- files:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>VCard (.vcf, gcrd)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The addressbook format used by the GNOME, KDE, and
- many other contact management applications. You
- should be able to export to VCard format from any
- address book application.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Microsoft Outlook Express 4 (.mbx)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Email file format used by Microsoft Outlook Express
- 4. For other versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, see
- the workaround described in the note below.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>MBox (mbox)</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The email box format used by Mozilla, Netscape,
- Ximian Evolution, Eudora, and many other email clients.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- To import your old email:
- <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Import</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Next</guibutton> after reading the Welcome screen.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select <guibutton>Import a single file</guibutton>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Find the file that you wish to import into <application>Evolution</application>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Import</guibutton>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="importing-preferences">
- <title>Importing Preferences</title>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> can import all your old mail, contacts, and other information from other applications, making your transition to <application>Evolution</application> even easier.
- </para>
- <para>
- To import your old information:
- <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Import</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Next</guibutton> after reading the Welcome screen.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select <guibutton>Import data and settings from older programs</guibutton>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The left-most column shows the application which your information will be imported from. You then select checkboxes on each component to import different properties of each application.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Import</guibutton>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
</chapter>