El Sábado, 2 de Julio de 2005 20:40, Gervase Chavasse escribió: This email I write in KMail, for a change - from inside gnome, thus gpg will not work. But it demonstrates that you can use several MUAs with the same setup of folders.
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.
Yes, true, I forgot. I changed that default to mbox in my setup for my own reasons.
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.
The inbox folder is special, you define it in Preferences (I'm translating on the fly, my KMail is in Spanish), Accounts, receiving, incoming account; chose the local account, modify, location of the archive (mine is '/home/cer/mbox', I don't recommend changing whatever you have if it works).
I simply tell kmail my folders are in ~/Mail/, and start using them.
How do I do that?
I did that long time ago, so I had to look it up. I don't install fresh, but update, so I inherited my setup. One advantage over fresh install ;-) The location of the "local folders" and everything below can be modified as explained in Kmail help, FAQ chapter. In mine, it is question 6.14. (¿Puedo configurar la ubicación de mi carpeta de correo?). Yours will be different. I can't change the kde language now to check, I'm using gnome right now. Basically, it involves editing '/.kde/share/config/kmailrc', variable: [General] folders=/home/username/.mail mine has: folders=$HOME/Mail which I think was the default time ago. Warning: the help file warns that you will loose your filters if you forget to move your folders after changing that. By the way, most of your questions are answered in that FAQ. I can see a good deal of work has been done in KMail: the help file is translated to Spanish, including the FAQ. That's a good thing ;-) A little investigation with mc (Midnight Commander) shows that if you want to move/copy mailfolders in maildir format, it means moving/copying two subdirectory, complete with hidden files: /entrada_maildir (folder) /cur /new /tmp .uidvalidity .entrada_maildir.index (indexes) .entrada_maildir.index.ids .entrada_maildir.index.sorted /.entrada_maildir.directory (subfolder holder) /subentrada /cur /new /tmp .subentrada.index .subentrada.index.ids I hope this structure I show above helps you to find out what you have to move/copy. There might be more folders/files, I only have one in maildir format for testing purposes. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson