kmail

[Paul Kaplan]

I'm in the process of moving my home directory from one machine to a new one.  
I'm using kde 3.1.  I tried copying the ~/Mail directory, but the files 
containging archived mail messages refuse to copy.  When I dig into the 
~/Mail folder, I find that the inbox, sent-mail, and trash directories copied 
just fine, and when I place these on the new machine running kde 3.2, all my 
messages are intact.

However, the contents of any Kmail folder containing archived messages refuse 
to copy.  For example, there is a directory containing three sub-driectories 
called new, cur, and tmp.  The first two are populated by files that appear 
to represent unread and read messages that have been placed in that kmail 
folder.   Each file is from 1-3 kb, and there is one for each message.

I have tried copying these files from the file manager, from a console, and 
from the command line without running a window manager, either as a normal 
user or as root .  I have tried copying the files to several different 
network drives and to a USB stick drive and I always get a message telling me 
that the files can not be written.  These are the only files that behave this 
way.

Can anyone suggest a reason why I can't move these files?  How can I copy them 
to my new machine so I don't loose my e-mail history?

TIA
Paul
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