Re: Making kmail5 work from kmail-1.9 mails?
Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
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.org On Fri, 3 Dec, 2021 at 10:11 AM, Erik Quaeghebeur <[email protected]> wrote: To: [email protected] > 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/$me/Mail, as it is already there, but currently invisible to kmail5. I think you want to create a custom account for that in the settings. See attached screenshot. I have never seen that requester, where is it? Alternatively, you can likely copy your mail onto the existing local maildir hierarchy. That looks like this: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l Mail total 176 drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:31 7x12 drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:19 amanda drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 2 07:23 amanda-stf drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:21 Apache2 drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 bug-tar drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:22 clamav drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:32 coco drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 5 15:23 cups drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 2 14:42 cur drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:23 debian drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:26 debian-arm drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:13 drafts drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 07:25 emc drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 5 15:27 fail2ban drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:27 fetchmail-users drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 geda drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:23 Gimp-user drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 gkrellm drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 gunsmith drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:24 ham drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 23:13 handloading drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 heyu_users drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:34 inbox drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 5 15:33 keep drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:34 kubuntu-users drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 linda drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:21 linux-rt drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 2 14:42 new drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 nut drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:27 OffTopic drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 14:27 Oscad-disc drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:15 outbox drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:30 python drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 qucs drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:14 sent-mail drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 10:32 Sheldon drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:33 spam drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:33 spam-hold drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:33 TDE drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:13 templates drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 2 14:42 tmp drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 trash drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:50 work drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 02:32 Xorg gene@coyote:~$ And I did get it to import that to a hidden mysql database. But now I have half the screen height wasted in empty dirs I haven't found the delete button for yet. Its bad enough I have subs for 47 mailing lists, each with its own folder. 11 lines of empty folders and they are not deletible.