On Saturday 02 July 2005 13:00, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2005-07-02 at 11:57 +0100, Gervase Chavasse wrote:
I tried importing but the import menu allows you to import from evolution and other MTAs but not a previous version of Kmail. Could you please suggest a blow by blow howto? Moving e-mail safely from one version to another is important to me. Many thanks.
If the folder is mbox type, it is prety simple: just copy over the mbox file, with cp, to where Kmail can see it. No need to "import".
As I see it, mail is by default in maildir format.
I have dozens of folders, inherited from suse 5.3, 6.x, 7,x, 8.x, 9.1 and finally, to 9.3. All seen.
I managed to copy some of my folders back from 9.2 via a Zip drive but the inbox folder seemed to behave differently. I have copied it into both /home/myname/Mail and /home/myname/.kde.share/apps/mail but Kmail fails to read them. I have of course checked the possessions.
I simply tell kmail my folders are in ~/Mail/, and start using them. How do I do that? Thanks again Gervase Chavasse