Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, 2009-04-20 at 15:20 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:

> > At 13:22:38 on Sunday Sunday 19 April 2009, "Carlos E. R."
> >
> > > In Linux, you can simply move over the mail folder from probably any
> > > mail client to any mail client -- if they are mbox type, and kmail by
> > > default uses a type of maildir. At least, you can move them from kmail
> > > to kmail.
...
> > > Configuration data (and addresses) is different.
>
>
> No, it's not - copying all of .kde[4] on one computer to the other will import 
> your mail and addresses,
> provided they are in the default locations under .kde[4].

Yes, it is. I insist. :-)

You can simply copy over a mail folder from, say, mozilla, to, say, kmail, 
any version, and it will work: it will read the email (both directions), 
because both programs understand the mbox format roughly the same.

However, configuration data from, say, mozilla, can not be moved directly, 
to, say, kmail.

That is what I said.

There is a more or less standard for mailbox (mbox) (1), but there is 
not for configuration, addresses, or indexes. Unfortunately.


   (Proof of (1) is that I share the exact same physical folders between
   Alpine, Kmail, Thunderbird, and Mozilla (and formerly, Balsa, before
   its demise). Indexes can not be shared, though).

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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