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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [suse-kde] Moving KMail conf files and also emails to new installation.
From:       Lists <lists () tag ! ukfsn ! org>
Date:       2004-07-19 18:59:07
Message-ID: 200407191959.27955.lists () tag ! ukfsn ! org
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On Wednesday 14 July 2004 21:18, Scott Jones wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 15:02, Lists wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >         I have two machines running SuSE 9.1.  On one machine (the
> > old one) I have my current email accounts set up in KMail.  I would
> > like to copy the complete setup for KMail from my old machine to my
> > new machine; including profiles, filters, emails and folder setup.
> >  Can I ;
> >
> > 1. Copy the .kmailrc conf file from the old machine over the top of
> > the KMail configuration file on the new machine (all profile details
> > will be the same).
>
> Yes.  (It's ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc, BTW).
>
> > 2. Create the new folders in KMail (on the new machine) and then copy
> > the email files using cp and preserving timestamps and permissions.
>
> It would be a lot easier to just tar up the mail directory (I believe
> KMail uses ~/Mail by default), copy the tarball over and untar on the
> new machine.  This will preserve everything you want preserved.

Thanks to everyone who replied!
Cheers
Al
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