[kde-linux] Exporting mails from kmail

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 05 July 2007, Boyan Tabakov wrote:

> [QUOTE]
> Can I configure the location of my mail folder?
>
>   Exit KMail, make a backup of ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc, then open it
> with an editor and add e.g. folders=/home/username/.mail to the “[General]”
> section. Then move all your existing folders (including the hidden index
> files) to the new location. The next time you start KMail will
> use /home/username/.mail instead of /home/username/Mail. Note that KMail
> will lose its filters if you change the mail folder's location but forget
> to move your existing folders.
> [END QUOTE]

There is a nice tool for manipulating KDE programs' config files: kwriteconfig
The above change would be achieved like this

% kwriteconfig --file kmailrc --group General --key 
folders "/path/to/newmaildir"

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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