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Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] backing up Kmail
From: Markus Feilner <mfeilner () feilner-it ! net>
Date: 2012-04-22 8:22:41
Message-ID: 2861993.QptDM2RHex () heisenberg
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Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 13:49:51 schrieb Reid:
> Great. That's the solution I was hoping for. And I understand also how
> that archive can be imported.
> =
> A few questions are still not clear to me:
> =
> Which directory is mail data stored in?
Good question, on KDE 4.8 I couldn't find it up to now. On KDE 3 and earlie=
r =
versions of KDE 4, it used to be found in ~/kde/share/kmail* or simliar, wi=
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a .kde4 prefix. I also remember finding mailfolders under ~/local or so, bu=
t on =
this kde 4.8. thingy I'm still searching. Maybe I'll find it in the next =
minutes (searching with find, du and other bash tools...)
> My next question has to do with migrating from Evolution to
> Kmail. I pull mail from several mail accounts, gmail being one
> of them. I don't delete the mail as I pull it and it, in a way
> this acts like a backup and also allows me to check messages
> remotely. But when I migrate I've got mail in that on-line
> location, and mail data on my machine that will need to be
> imported. Do you have any thoughts about the best way to go
> about this migration. I'm aware that in the Kmail import tool
> there's a check-box that allows you to make a selection that
> eliminates duplicates. I assume that works.
> =
> Any thoughts about migrating several accounts would be welcome.
> Is it best to migrate the data first and then connect to the
> account imap and pop accounts, or vice-versa?
> =
> Thanks
> =
> RSV869
> =
> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:41 +0200, Markus Feilner wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 10:23:44 schrieb Reid:
> > > Hello group-
> > > =
> > > I'm a long-time ubuntu user but new to Kmail.
> > > =
> > > What's the best way to back up my mail? A built-in utility would be
> > > nice :-> . Failing that can you point me to the directory where the
> > > mail messages reside. I pull email from multiple mail providers but
> > > hope it's not spread all over the directory structure :->
> > > =
> > > More specifically, this is Kubuntu 11.10, running Kmail 4.8.2
> > > =
> > > Thanks
> > > =
> > > RSV869
> > =
> > There are several ways. the best and obvious is in the Menu:
> > 1) right-click on a folder and select "backup folder" (on my - german -
> > system it says "Ordner archivieren". You can then select a compression
> > format and a folder to save to. Later you can re-import these Mails.
> > =
> > 2) Second, you can save single mails (or several at a time) from the li=
st.
> > =
> > 3) I am also starting to work with Monharc, (http://www.mhonarc.org/),
> > which is converting mail stores to static HTML - which is exactly what I
> > want for long-term-archive on DVD or Webservers. Seems a nice tool, but
> > not (yet?) integrated with KDE or Kmail...
> > =
> > Have a nice weekend!
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