Evolution migration

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After recent hardware problems, I am up on new hardware and new install of Fedora 44 KDE. Everylthing seems to be working at least for the applications I have installed at this time. However, I still need to be able to migrate from evolution to thunderbird. I have installed thunderbird and migrated my gmail account into it, fine! Now I need to be able to find my evolution emails and contacts and figure out how to import those into thunderbird. I have googled about how to do this but everything I find doesn’t pan out. At least to my understanding. I have approximately 20 years worth of mails in evolution but evolution doesn’t seem to behave consistently with my F43 KDE install (maybe it was related to my hardware problems, I don’t know). In any case my decision is to go with thunderbird for all my email needs. I have never needed to interact with any Microsoft Outlook accounts so I don’t need that part of evolution.

Can anyone tell me a proven path to follow to migrate my old evolution folders and contacts from my F43 KDE install to my new F44 KDE.

Thanks in advance!!

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What I would look of is to export the address book as Vcard, and then import that into Thunderbird. I’ve never done that so I don’t know how well that would work. Google has plenty on this subject.

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I googled “how to migrate from evolution to thunderbird?” and it says you can export an MBOX file and then import it, so suggest googling that.

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Hi Edward,

Here is what I found on this:

Importing Evolution Contacts

  1. Open your address book in Evolution, right-click on it and choose: Save as vcard… to export it into vCard file format.
  2. In Thunderbird, open the Tools > Import… menu, select Address Books and then vCard file (.vcf) and select your contact file.