22 Feb
2016
22 Feb
'16
9:15 a.m.
On Monday 22 February 2016 00:05:41 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 21 February 2016 15:39:57 Thierry de Coulon
wrote:
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
On Sunday 21 February 2016 01.41:18 Glen
Cunningham wrote:
That might not be 100% good info, here on a wheezy system, its ~/Mail,
and I can't remember when it was different. 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