Suse help.
I want to move all of my email, local files and folders,
from 11.4 to 12.1. How do I do that?

jimonlinux

The usual method would be to use the mv command: mv /sourcefiles /desitnationfolder/

Are you talking about a few files? Thousands of files? Files in the same directory? Multiple directories? Is this to be done on the same computer?

You will need to give more details on what your are trying to do and what happened that caused failure. Or have you tried anything yet?

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Also be advised
OpenSUSE 12.1 is unsupported ,it is past it's "End Of Life"

please use a supported version
OpenSUSE 12.2 or 12.3

Thank you to those that responded.
My problem is that I cannot find a file that contains email, emaile files or folders.
In the past I could simply copy the entire email directory to another computer and everything was there.

Now, typing whereis kmail I get,
/usr/bin/kmail /usr/bin/X11/kmail
Both kmail is executable, not a folder or file.

I can't move an executable to another machine.

I'v been advised to:
1. move everything to IMAP and migrate clean.??

or

2. Keep old mail directory or export, then import
into new storage arch 3. migrator.???

I've been with linux since version 6.4.

I'm using 11.4 because the last time I lost all of my email, moving from v9.x to 11.4

I will copy all email addresses into the new upgrade if I have to but rebuilding
all of the local folders and sub folder plus the filters will be a project.

If I have to loose all of my email I will print out all that I need to and loose
the rest but that won happen until the kmail that I use is so depreciated that
it won't accept any more mail.

I'd be very happy if I could find where Kmail is located on version 11.4 so I
could copy it, back it up, and move it to the upgrade. Then I would be very
happy to upgrade to the newer versions.

jimonlinux


update:

found all of the email in /home/web75/.local/share/local-mail.directory
I have my answer
jimonlinux

I thought a fresh install offered the opportunity to import emails and address books on kde. Also desktop content. Couple of links that might help others who find this thread after searching.

However I generally copy my entire kde directory onto something and do a clean install then import. That way I retain my folder structure. The previous emails are put in a kmail import folder complete with the directory structure making it easy to delete what's no longer required.

http://readthisaloud.wordpress.com/2...ails-in-kmail/

http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/Tools

I'm going to 12.3 so hope it still works. No problems when I went to 11.4

John
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Thanks to all that responded to this question.

I wasn't aware that could export with the import option. As of now I haven't tried anything because of time.

Using the Import Messages option sounds straight forward. I'm planning to transfer the info to a portable H.D. then
importing from the portable.

jimonlinux

It seems Kmail is ok on 12.3 providing filters aren't used. It seems importing lots of email also takes rather a long time.

I am going to try installing kdepim3 into 12.3. It seems this does come with 12.3 and includes the old KDE3 email packages.

I find it amazing that after 10 releases of KDE the email isn't fully sorted but I guess many use web mail etc now so there are an insufficient number of people prepared to sort it out.

OpenSuse seems to be a little ahead on their releases against KDE releases as it looks like kde 4.11 due in August will be the next stable release. Fixing mail seems to be some way down the bug priority list.

John
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