On Saturday 16 June 2018 22:29:29 Stefan Krusche wrote:
Hi Glen,
Am Samstag 16 Juni 2018 schrieb Glen Cunningham:
G'day All Trinity Gurus, I am currently running KMail on a very old KDE/Trinity installation. /etc/issue shows "Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS" which needs to be pensioned off immediately. I have installed tde-14.0.4-ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso onto a newer computer. The installation seems OK and I managed to transfer the mozilla bookmarks to the new computer but getting KMail across has me stumped. Googling did not produce anything useful. :-((( On this old computer the KMail info seems to be stored in /home/glen/.kde3/share/apps/kmail but the new installation seems to have a very different directory structure.
So, can the KMail settings and emails be copied to the newer computer? If anyone knows how, please let me know in GOF-speak (that is words of 2-syllables or less).
Ta, Glen
if you find these files in your old config directory, then copy all of them into the new one while kmail is not running:
.trinity/share/config/kmail.eventsrc .trinity/share/config/kmailrc .trinity/share/config/kmailsnippetrc .trinity/share/config/emaildefaults .trinity/share/config/emailidentities
Directories, filters and almost everything is stored in kmailrc. You will want your emailidentities, too, I guess. The other ones are not so important unless you want your previously configured sounds etc.
In addition to the kmail data directory "/home/glen/.kde3/share/apps/kmail" which you already have copied, that should do the trick.
Regards, Stefan
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Thanks for the reply, Stefan, None of the files that you suggest exit in this old installation. G.