Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Carlos F Lange said:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 17:17, 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.
>
> Just copying the directory (or folder) should do it.

That's right, just copy the whole $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail directory .  To 
copy your settings and filters, take $HOME/.kde/share/config/kmailrc too.

Will

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