Hello SuSE-kde users, Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it. Anybody can tell me how to fix it. I have several thousand saved emails in there that I need access to. Bob S.
A Diumenge, 1 de Gener de 2006 09:11, Bob S va escriure:
Hello SuSE-kde users,
Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it.
Anybody can tell me how to fix it. I have several thousand saved emails in there that I need access to.
Bob S.
I had the same problem when I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.3. KMail changed the path of the saved mails to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail for pop3 type and ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/dimap for DIMAP type. Try overwritting those directories and see what happens. Cheers, -- Oscar Curero - Linux user: 306877 -- GPG keyID: 0xE0EA0B24 --
/home/efe/.kde/share/apps/kmail
this is default directory of kmail. you can import your old mails which were
in bob folder, evenif your old mails aren't be deleted.
kmail's menu. tools->import messages.
just an idea to help
Happy new years
On 1/1/06, Bob S
Hello SuSE-kde users,
Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it.
Anybody can tell me how to fix it. I have several thousand saved emails in there that I need access to.
Bob S.
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Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2006 09:11 schrieb Bob S:
Hello SuSE-kde users,
Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it.
If you want to keep your Mails outside of the ~/.kde folder, which is now the default place for it, you yust have to edit the file ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc Look in the file for the [General] Section, and see if there is an entry [...] folders= Yust edit or, if it not exist, set the entry to folders=~/Mail Thats all Michael
Anybody can tell me how to fix it. I have several thousand saved emails in there that I need access to.
Bob S.
On Sunday 01 January 2006 15:15, Michael Schueller wrote:
Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2006 09:11 schrieb Bob S:
Hello SuSE-kde users,
Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it.
If you want to keep your Mails outside of the ~/.kde folder, which is now the default place for it, you yust have to edit the file ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
Look in the file for the
[General] Section, and see if there is an entry [...] folders=
Yust edit or, if it not exist, set the entry to
folders=~/Mail
Thanks for replying, all of you. I tried that and it worked, but then it excluded the 30 or 40 new mails that I had already received and kmail kept complaining about the kmailrc file. So I reversed that to restore the original config. Since two of you mentioned that the program had changed it's default mail storage location to .kde ............/kmail/mail, and that would be the default for new upgrades ?? I kind of followed what Oscar had advised. I moved my new mail to a new obscure directory and the just copied my /home/bob/Mail to the new .kde location and let it overwrite everything. . Got it all back again and moved my new mail back again. All set Would be really nice if we could know about these changes before we did these upgrades. Especially kmail when they have to realize that we all save email. Another point, What has happened to the total number of mails in a folder in the "Folders List" That is a bummer, A new "feature"? I used that to keep track of mails in the folders. Anyway, thanks for helping out guys. It is appreciated. Bob S.
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:05 pm, Bob S wrote:
Another point, What has happened to the total number of mails in a folder in the "Folders List" That is a bummer, A new "feature"? I used that to keep track of mails in the folders.
Right click on the unread column header, and tick "total column" -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.12-10-686
On Monday 02 January 2006 00:45, jim barnes wrote:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:05 pm, Bob S wrote:
Another point, What has happened to the total number of mails in a folder in the "Folders List" That is a bummer, A new "feature"? I used that to keep track of mails in the folders.
Right click on the unread column header, and tick "total column"
Thanks Jim, That did it. The simple things, right? Bob S.
On Sunday 01 January 2006 3:11 am, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE-kde users,
Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it.
Anybody can tell me how to fix it. I have several thousand saved emails in there that I need access to.
Bob, copy that dir. off somewhere safe, then delete it in your /home/bob dir. Then, open KMail and use the import feature to try and import all of the mail, setup, etc. from that saved dir. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x
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