21 Feb
2016
21 Feb
'16
8:39 p.m.
On Sunday 21 February 2016 01.41:18 Glen Cunningham wrote:
Reply to my own post for the archives.
On Sunday 21 February 2016 09:38:25 Glen Cunningham wrote:
> Thanks for the try, Nik,
>
> On Sunday 21 February 2016 03:39:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > It's that simple :-)
>
> NO! It is not that simple.
>
(...)
Laboriously copied the above 6 files/directories from .kde3 on the old
box to .trinity on the new one.
That did not work! Kmail failed to start.
Deleted the 5 config files, restarted kmail, at least kmail started
this time and my old mailboxes seem to have survived.
There has gotta be a better way!
Cheers,
Glen
It should - almost - work the way Nik indicated.
There are possibly a few things to edit when you move to .trinity (but that
will be only once). Mainly, did you edit /.trinity/share/config/kmailrc ? In
the last part of the file (after the mailboxes), you have the path to your
mail directory.
In (very) old time this would have been ~/mail , but somwhere in KDE history
it was relocated to a ./kde3 subdirectory, usually
$HOME/.kde3/share/apps/kmail/mail. You must change that to
$HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail
As far as I remember that's all I had to do (apart from copyinf the
directory).
Thierry