Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Jim Flanagan <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 04:17:17 pm Jim Flanagan wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is a basic question, but what is the best way to copy my email
>> files from one install (9.3) to my new install (10.2). Same machine. Old
>> install is mounted as same user name  mounted at "data1".  I have not
>> used kmail on the new install yet, but did open kmail once, have not set
>> up users. I see may old mail in
>> /data1/home/user/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. I see the same folder in
>> the new install, with only a few sub-folders. Should I just copy the
>> whole /mail folder over the new one and be done with it? Or would "cat"
>> be better? Again, there is no mail in the new folder so I can overwrite
>> it if need be.
>>     
>
> I don't know if it is the kosher way to do things, but with  my mom's system 
> yesterday, I simply restored her home folder structure to a temporary folder. 
> I then did an import using File > Import Messages.  It pulled in her whole 
> folder structure. 
>
> I suppose this method does not retain filters and whatnot but it seemed to 
> work for me. 
>   
Hi Kai,

Import. Thats a good idea, I didn't think of that. Did this method save
all the read/unread info as it was? I'm seem to remember that there is a
way to import or copy filters too, but don't remember that far back to
my changeover from 8.2 to 9.1.

Jim F
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