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Great. That's the solution I was hoping for. And I understand also how that archive can be imported.<BR>
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A few questions are still not clear to me:<BR>
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Which directory is mail data stored in?<BR>
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My next question has to do with migrating from Evolution to Kmail. I pull mail from several mail accounts, gmail being one of them. I don't delete the mail as I pull it and it, in a way this acts like a backup and also allows me to check messages remotely. But when I migrate I've got mail in that on-line location, and mail data on my machine that will need to be imported. Do you have any thoughts about the best way to go about this migration. I'm aware that in the Kmail import tool there's a check-box that allows you to make a selection that eliminates duplicates. I assume that works.<BR>
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Any thoughts about migrating several accounts would be welcome. Is it best to migrate the data first and then connect to the account imap and pop accounts, or vice-versa?<BR>
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Thanks <BR>
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RSV869 <BR>
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On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:41 +0200, Markus Feilner wrote:
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Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 10:23:44 schrieb Reid:
> Hello group-
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> I'm a long-time ubuntu user but new to Kmail.
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> What's the best way to back up my mail? A built-in utility would be
> nice :-> . Failing that can you point me to the directory where the
> mail messages reside. I pull email from multiple mail providers but
> hope it's not spread all over the directory structure :->
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> More specifically, this is Kubuntu 11.10, running Kmail 4.8.2
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> Thanks
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> RSV869
There are several ways. the best and obvious is in the Menu:
1) right-click on a folder and select "backup folder" (on my - german - system
it says "Ordner archivieren". You can then select a compression format and a
folder to save to. Later you can re-import these Mails.
2) Second, you can save single mails (or several at a time) from the list.
3) I am also starting to work with Monharc, (<A HREF="http://www.mhonarc.org/">http://www.mhonarc.org/</A>), which
is converting mail stores to static HTML - which is exactly what I want for
long-term-archive on DVD or Webservers. Seems a nice tool, but not (yet?)
integrated with KDE or Kmail...
Have a nice weekend!
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