[kde-linux] Importing mail from older mail system.

[Bruce Bales]

On Thursday 12 February 2009 07:21:05 John Culleton wrote:
> I have a Slackware Linux system with two users, safe and safer.
> The mail in safer is actually from an older system which had a directory
> called safe. I can view it OK when I sign on as safer. Now I want to
> consolidate the two bodies of mail, the filters and so on.  When I attempt
> ot import the mail from safer to safe one of three things happens:
>
> 1. The mail imports but it disappears when accessed.
> 2. The import filter immediately says 100% has been imported.
> 3. I get a message denying my access to the folder. But everything in safer
> has had a chmod 666 -R *
>
> I also have a folder of mail from a still older system. I would like to
> import that too.
>
> Any suggestions? This is frustrating.
>
> John Culleton

I don't see any mention of what mail program you are using.  kmail? 
Thunderbird? Mutt?

Might be important to know.