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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] problems importing mail to kmail
From:       Ingo =?windows-1252?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-22 19:27:43
Message-ID: 200404222127.43832 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Thursday 22 April 2004 21:11, Colm.Connolly@ucd.ie wrote:
>     Ingo> But there's a much easier way to import your mail. Simply
>     Ingo> uncompress the mbox files to ~/Mail and then restart
>     Ingo> KMail. KMail will automagically import any folders it finds
>     Ingo> in ~/Mail. And if you want to import the mail into the
> right Ingo> folder hierarchy then you'll have to create the necessary
> Ingo> .foo.directory directories in ~/Mail. OTOH, if at the same
> Ingo> time you want to move from mbox to maildir folders then Ingo>
> importing via dcop is the better solution.
>
> Yeah, converting mboxes to maildir was one reason for doing it that
> way.
>
> Along a similar line as you suggest, if I use a perl script to
> convert the mboxes to maildir format and place the resultant maildirs
> below ~/Mail, will KMail pick up the new (maildir) folders upon
> restart?

Yes.

Regards,
Ingo

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