nativeg Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 (edited) Is anyone else out there using KDE Kmail? I need to figure out how to remove all of my email that is on one computer and move it to another Distro. After several attempts. I have still yet to be able to make it work properly. Thanks, NativeG Edited November 13, 2007 by TCH-Thomas Removed link. Do not link to other hosting companies please. Quote
TCH-James Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 I tried KMail, but it always seems to crash on me in Fedora Core. I know the mail directory is stored in /home/<username>/.kde/share/apps/kmail. In fact, you can probably just grab the entire .kde folder to move your settings over without any issues. Quote
TCH-Andy Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 Are you just moving from kmail on one to kmail on another computer ? If so you should find all the emails under /home/username/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ ( or something close to that ) and you can just copy the inbox, sent items etc over. Jesse beat me to it Quote
TCH-Carl Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 I normally copy the entire .kde directory so that the same interface is retained. If you need just the mail, then yes, /home/username/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ should do the trick. Quote
TCH-Vivek Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 Yes, I too normally take a backup of the entire .kde folder before upgrading or installing another distro etc. Quote
nativeg Posted November 14, 2007 Author Posted November 14, 2007 There is still something I am missing. I could not get the files to transfer to the new distro over the network, so I burned a cd with all of the files on it. (481 Mb worth) It loaded just fine but when I went into Kmail on the new distro, everything looked fine until I tried clicking on one of the emails. then it would say "No Subject "and the the entire email was gone. It is like it is seeing a mirror of the email but nothing behind it. To beat that, the Emails took up 481 Mb of space. Yes there were a ton of Emals in the old machine, and they are still there. Thanks for any help you can give me. Is anyone else out there using KDE Kmail? I need to figure out how to remove all of my email that is on one computer and move it to another Distro.After several attempts. I have still yet to be able to make it work properly. Thanks, NativeG Quote
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