On Sunday 19 April 2009 14:45:25 Stan Goodman wrote:
At 13:22:38 on Sunday Sunday 19 April 2009, "Carlos E. R."
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-04-18 at 23:37 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
I am running openSuSE v10.3, and want to install v11.1 on a separate drive. I will want to carry over, among other things, the mail folders, the settings, and the filters from KMail to the new OS, but I do not find a way to export these things from the present mailer, nor for that matter, to import them. What am I overlooking?
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.
In that case, presumably the mail folders would come across with the home directory, so there is no problem.
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].
Addresses are in KAddressbook, which DOES know how to export and import, so this too is no problem, unless KDE4's "paradigm shift" makes it impossible. Personally, I am very suspicious of the need or desirability of far-reaching paradigm shifts that make life difficult for users; it has a Redmond taste. But Redmond has the excuse that they have to coerce customers to replace apps yearly, else the Sultan of Brunei would again be the wealthiest man on the planet. I am not sure what the motivation would be for KDE.
Should be a request to devs, export/import all data.
One would think that would have been self-understood.
There was no significant[*] paradigm shift for kmail or kaddressbook's storage - no conspiracy, developer arrogance or eye candy fixation here - the difficulty arises because although upstream KDE automatically migrates all data to KDE3, we took the conservative route of keeping .kde for KDE3 and .kde4 for KDE4 so that users can freely switch between versions. We do not automatically migrate PIM data in 11.1 because we wanted to make sure the migration process was watertight for 11.2. Will [*] The default storage of mail distribution lists changed from a text file on disk to a synthetic contact in the addressbook. This allows the dist list to be stored on groupware servers and therefore behave the same way as regular contacts from a user's perspective. This is not handled automatically by upstream KDE. I'm working on automating this conversion for 11.2.