Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

I have used a ~/Mail directory since I started with 8.2. In every 
upgrade Kmail always recognizes the presence of that directory and uses 
it instead of ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail without any need for change 
in settings. It may adapt the *.index files at the upgrade, but it is 
completely transparent and all messages are there with proper status 
(read/unread, etc).

Carlos FL
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