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SAngeli

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Wednesday, July 6th 2005, 12:04pm

Transferring mail data from existing kmail to new kde PC

Hi,

I currently have one PC with Gentoo - Linux running KDE 3.3.2
I use kmail and have all my mails.
I am moving to a new PC with KDE 3.4.1 How do I move all my kmail mails?

Also, is there an utility that would check the integrity and correctness of all my kmail mail and folders?

Thank you,
Spiro

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Wednesday, July 6th 2005, 2:23pm

That is usually best done packing all old file into an archive, for example like this

#> tar cvzf mail.tgz ~/Mail ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

and then unpacking the archive on the target machine before starting KMail there.

~/Mail
is the mail directory

~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
is the KMail configuration file, including account setups and filters

~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
Standard addressbook

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Wednesday, July 6th 2005, 3:29pm

Hi Cheers,

I thank you very much for your infor.

I will do as told.

Is there any tool that check Mail integrity, like in Microsoft world, for Kmail that you know?

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Wednesday, July 6th 2005, 4:51pm

Not sure what you mean with mail integrity.

Can you be more specific?

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Wednesday, July 6th 2005, 6:22pm

Hi,

with Microsoft Outlook, in the past the .pst file could become corrupted.
I do not know how kmail handles its mails.

So, for integrity I mean being sure that Kmail (Mail folder and all its subfolders) and its indexes are not corrupted.

It is more a Microsoft thinking. Please tell me that this only belongs to Microsoft. :)

Here is a tangible example: I also opened a bug report.
I have imported "properly" my mail from Outlook to kmail. I have several emails with attachments where the paper clip does not show up. All the rest, instead do show the paper clicp. I would consider this as an issue.

I hope I explained better my question.

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Thursday, July 7th 2005, 9:26am

Quoted

Originally posted by SAngeli
with Microsoft Outlook, in the past the .pst file could become corrupted.
I do not know how kmail handles its mails.

KMail does store its mails in text files, either all of one filder in one file (mbox) or one directory per folder, one mail per file (maildir)

Unless the underlying file system gets corrputed, there should be no corrpution in the mails.

The default mailbox format (maildir) has the additional advantage, that should something like this happen, it very likely only affects a single mail.

Quoted

All the rest, instead do show the paper clicp. I would consider this as an issue.


I agree that this sounds like a bug.
Do the attachments show up at all?

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