On Monday 22 February 2016 00:05:41 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 21 February 2016 15:39:57 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
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
That might not be 100% good info, here on a wheezy system, its ~/Mail, and I can't remember when it was different.
Sorry, Gene - this is the not 100% correct information. You have not got a standard Wheezy system by any manner of means. It was possible to keep mail in ~/Mail. which is where it was before, but only by deliberately hacking one's system. It is NOT where it is on a standard Wheezy/TDE system. E.g., it is not on mine. I migrated my mails, with help from the community, I did not hack and set up links or whatever in order to keep ~/Mail, although that was a possibility. ISTR that I tried and made a mess of it.
Lisi