Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. 
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k
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