How to Backup Evolution
Saturday, October 18th, 2008From an old mailing list gem, I got the right method to back up your Evolution (mail + calendar + contacts) data the right way:
From an old mailing list gem, I got the right method to back up your Evolution (mail + calendar + contacts) data the right way:
Before you start, it’d be good to gather some information about your Exchange server setup. It’s also very important to read all the documentation you can get.
Did you know that Email is sent in clear text over the Internet? Unless you take steps to secure it, anyone who intercepts a message can easily read it. It’s also really easy for someone to send an email that looks like it came from you. The open source solution for this problem is called GNU Privacy Guard. It uses public key cryptography to encrypt a message, so that only the rightful recipient can read it, or simply sign it so that the recipient can confirm that it came from you. Here’s an installation walk-through for GNU Privacy Guard on Fedora and Ubuntu, along with a brief overview of how to use it with Evolution to send secure email.