Unable to find where Evolution stores emails, to back them up

Question

I'm trying to create a backup of the emails of evolution in Linux Arch. However, I can't find the source folder. This doesn't exist "~/.gconf/apps/evolution" and this doesn't either "~/.evolution". In all the tutorials they say I should the "~/.evolution" folder.

Where else can my email be found?

Solution

Evolution now uses the standard XDG locations:

• ~/.local/share/evolution for user data (so all locally stored email should be here);
• ~/.config/evolution for configuration settings (account parameters);
• ~/.cache/evolution for cached files (including temporarily downloaded IMAP emails).

Comments

[Alan Coromano]

can I completely restore all emails on a server from "~/.local/share/evolution"?

[user1686]

Well, if they're in ~/.local/share/evolution, then they're not on the server in the first place – they've been downloaded to the PC already.

[Alan Coromano]

can I completely restore all emails on a server copied from localhost "~/.local/share/evolution"?

[user1686]

Depends. Are you using IMAP or POP3?