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

[Peter Humphrey]

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.
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