Re: Making kmail5 work from kmail-1.9 mails?

> In my quest to get a working email agent, first question is 
> "how do I get kmail5 to recognize and read, about 7 gigs and 45 maildir folders worth of old kmail-1.9 mail"?
>
> Ideally it should create folder entries in the left panel 
> simply by finding the folder in 
>
> /home/$me/Mail, as it is already there, but currently invisible to kmail5.

I think you want to create a custom account for that in the settings. See 
attached screenshot.

Alternatively, you can likely copy your mail onto the existing local 
maildir hierarchy.