Re: How to move from KMAIL to KMAIL?

Peter Ruskin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 02:47, Bob Paddock wrote:
> Under Mandrake 8.2 I was using KMAIL.
>
> I'd like to move all of the mail that I had under Mandrake KMAIL to be
> used with Gentoo's KMAIL.
>
> Seems like it should be a simple copy job, but when I fire up Gentoo's
> KMAIL I get lots and lots of messages saying "Wrong Permision".
>
> I used the program 'gentoo' to copy Mandrake/home/me/Mail to
> Gentoo/home/me/Mail.

That should work, but I bet that you have different UID and GID in gentoo.
If you do 
	ls -la Gentoo/home/me/Mail
do you get numbers for owner and group?

If so, as root, do
	chown -R me.mygroup Gentoo/home/me/Mail

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