Speaking as a Thunderbird user myself, I was wondering about the ability to backup email from Evolution in Linux. Thanks to the article below, I now having a working guide. Oh wait, never mind. It looks like I am back to square one much as this person seems to be as well.

Some of you may know Gnome Evolution project which is a complete Outlook-like solution for Linux with contacts, calendars, mail client and God knows what else. I kind of like it as it has some indexing features allowing me to search through the years of letters in a reasonable time. It basically performs well, but recently I found that it started to slow down.

It wasn’t until my mail base grew big enough having about 10K messages at a present. Pretty good and solid number, no? Unfortunately, Evolution engine doesn’t think so. Hardly had we got over 7-8K when it became really slow clearing and reindexing things after mail box checks. It took seconds to complete simple check and it hung for a while, doing some “expunging”. [Read the rest]