[Kde-pim] switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Thursday 03 January 2013 18:52:52 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On 3/1/2013, "Jos Poortvliet" <jos at opensuse.org> wrote:
> >On Monday 10 December 2012 16:53:10 salamandir wrote:
> >> i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm
> >> keeping
> >> KDE,
> >> 
> >> in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to
> >> migrate successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a
> >> "preferred" way to migrate/upgrade email that doesn't lose data in the
> >> process.
> >
> >There's nothing you have to do. If you have a separate home (and you
> >should) a smart distro will recognize it during installation, just
> >overwrite your root partition with the new distro and you will barely
> >notice you switched from one distro to another. I had a completely
> >smooth experience going from Arch Linux to openSUSE. Granted, oS is of
> >course quite smart with this stuff and you will probably need to do
> >custom partitioning magic in most other distro's but it's not a problem
> >for KMail that you run another distro for sure.
> 
> You were lucky. Unless the versions of all your DE programs are the same
> in the two distros, you're asking for trouble if you try to use one
> setup in the other.

Hmm, the versions were largely the same or higher, I suppose... But I'm not 
even sure as Arch is a rolling release and I moved to openSUSE 11.3 shortly 
before 11.4 was released - so the software in there was at least 8 months 
old. Guess I was lucky, then ;-)
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