Re: Importing rather than moving mail?

On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:31:21 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I've had an exchange today with a guy who wanted to move his mail
> > > from  distro that must be 2-3 years old - back in the days when the
> > > defult destination was ~/Mail - to a current distro with KDE 4.  I'm
> > > not sure I've got the sequence of events right, but he tried copying
> > > the mail to the new destination, and he tried importing it.  He ended
> > > up with an odd display in the folder list panel, and nothing in the
> > > message list or message preview panels.  Eventually he set about
> > > removing kmail altogether to get a clean start.
> > >
> > > In the end he did manage to import the mail, so he's puzzled, but
> > > satisfied. Meanwhile, I've not heard of this before.  Are there some
> > > circumstances where just copying your mail folders to the new
> > > destination won't work?  I don't want to be giving bad advice on
> > > this.
> >
> > I think it should work. 

It's odd that it didn't.  Of course he was using a very old version, so 
something vital may have changed along the way.  He said:
<quote>
I'm trying to move a few thousand emails from kmail 1.6.1 [2004] in MD
10.0 to kmail 1.9.9 in MD 2008.1.
</quote>

> > Instead of copying the mail folders to the new
> > destination under ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail he could have simply changed
> > the folders entry in the [General] section in kmailrc to
> > folders=$HOME/Mail
>
> I think KMail even autodetects this if the directory is present at its
> first startup.
>
> > FWIW, my mail is still in $HOME/Mail.
>
> Same here.
>
It used to be the default in Mandrake/Mandriva, but changed some time back.

> Generally I always recommend to use an archive to copy/move/backup the mail
> directory, e.g. using tar
>
> Gets all the files, even hidden ones, will extract as the user performing
> the operation, sets correct access rights, etc.
>
I use rsync, archive mode, overnight to backup mail, addressbook and organizer 
to another drive.

Anne

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