Here are the contents of my /home/samjnaa/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail directory.

drwxr-xr-x 5 samjnaa users 120 2005-10-25 12:22 inbox -rw------- 1 samjnaa users 208367 2005-10-25 12:22 .inbox.index -rw-r--r-- 1 samjnaa users 1821 2005-10-25 12:22 .inbox.index.ids -rw-r--r-- 1 samjnaa users 22349 2005-10-25 12:19 .inbox.index.sorted

I have mail only in the inbox and linux folders. So it's enough if I

back up

those two directories, right?

Yes, that will do. In fact, a good test would be to copy them, rename them, and then try to load them as another folder. You can see what you get.

Do I have to backup the respective index files too?

I do. Don't know if it is required, but they aren't that big.

While we're at it, what's the second column in the above dir listing?

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