Comment 45 for bug 293207

So where does this leave Evolution's future in Ubuntu? This bug has put a hard stop on my LTS migration.

I found this bug when doing user data migration via the LTS upgrade scenario. I'm moving users from a 8.04 machine to a freshly installed 10.04 machine and encountered this issue as predicted by ctenorman in the gnome lanchpad. I have not found a path that successfully starts evolution on the new system with the users existing mail intact. I've done the delete all the index/summary/cmeta/camel/gnome2 files, and the backup/restore chants discussed without success.

Unless a solution presents itself soon, I'll be migrating users to Thunderbird or some other mailer.