Kmail Export Strategies

zparihar · 06-30-2005, 12:46 AM

Hey guys!

I was just wondering if anyone has any good Kmail-to-Kmail export strategies.

I want to copy over my entire desktop kmail inbox to my laptops kmail inbox.

What i've done right now is a 'select all' on all my messages in my inbox and then did a 'save as' inbox.mbx.

Then imported it to my laptop using 'import messages' under tools.

However, I can't tell which emails have attachments and which ones i've replied to on my Laptop.

Any Suggestion?

Thanks!

Zubin Parihar

aikidoist72 · 06-30-2005, 07:14 PM

Try copying your mail folder as is, from one kmail folder to another. It is exactly the same as backing up your emails to a seperate partiton or cdrom . No need to import anything.

Cheers

zparihar · 07-01-2005, 03:00 PM

Hi aikidoist72, thanks for your reponse!

When I do that though and I open up my Kmail on my laptop, I don't see anything in my inbox, sent items etc, etc.

Is there anything i should do once i've copied over the Mail folder?

Thanks

Zubin Parihar

aikidoist72 · 07-01-2005, 07:41 PM

Are you using different versions of KDE? 3.3.x stores the mail differently to 3.4.x so check two places.

~/username/Mail

and

~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/

These are the two places to make sure you have all the mail files and extra files.

RaiReg · 07-14-2005, 06:52 AM

I'm not sure if this is the best way, in fact I'm sure there is a simpler way however here is what I did

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=kmail

Hope that helps

Nobber · 07-14-2005, 08:19 AM

Hmm. When I moved from KDE 3.2 on Mandrake 10 to KDE 3.3 on Slackware 10.1, all I did was copy the contents of the mail folder, and the kmailrc file, and everything worked. Then I upgraded to KDE 3.4 and still everything worked.

Perhaps my KMail setup is unusually simple?