Not knowing anything about KMAIL, I *MIGHT OF* not sure, left kmail open while backing up the .trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail folder.
I know that nothing was running when I did the backup. I had KMAIL set to work offline.
Do you think everything will be okay? I know KMAIL stores emails as separate files vs in a .mbox file.
I just got done importing everything over from Evolution.
I might make another backup again, just to be sure.
Anno domini 2024 Sun, 19 May 19:59:11 -0500 Chris M via tde-users scripsit:
Not knowing anything about KMAIL, I *MIGHT OF* not sure, left kmail open while backing up the .trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail folder.
I know that nothing was running when I did the backup. I had KMAIL set to work offline.
Do you think everything will be okay? I know KMAIL stores emails as separate files vs in a .mbox file.
I just got done importing everything over from Evolution.
I might make another backup again, just to be sure.
Everything is ok. You might have to rebuild indices when playing the backups back, but that happens automaically.
Nik
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Chris M via tde-users wrote:
Do you think everything will be okay? I know KMAIL stores emails as separate files vs in a .mbox file.
Kmail stores the mails in the format you preffer. mbox is the oldes plain text mail format from the dawn of the email services. It writes all mail in one file. Later Maildir and other formats (see DB-Mail where email is stored in mysql db) were introduced to cope with the increasing email volumes. For local storage nowdays it is sufficient to use Maildir (IMO). For admin mail perhaps most simple to use mbox as you do not expect too much mail from a single system and you can remove now and then the oldest.
You can google Maildir and find out what features it provides (ex. better indexing).
BR
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