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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Need help for distribution change
From:       Chris Cox <onebeer () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2005-02-18 17:38:58
Message-ID: 42162832.1000105 () yahoo ! com
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Jason Flatt wrote:

>On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:16 pm, Larry Baker wrote:
>  
>
>>I am changing from the SUSE 9.2 professional to the Mandrake 10.1
>>distribution.  Since KMail does not support an export function, can anyone
>>suggest a way to save my e-mail messages so that after a clean install, the
>>messages can then be accessed in the new distribution?
>>    
>>
>
>You could just copy your ~/Mail folder to some offline storage place (another 
>hard drive, network share, CD, etc.), do the re-installation thing and then 
>copy it back in place (or possibly import them if the folders are mbox 
>format).  I did something similar mayself recently.
>
>
>  
>
If you do it that way make sure you chown -R newuser:users Mail/ 
directory path. Where newuser is the name of your user account.

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