Migrating my KMail to a new machine.

[Franklin]

frmrick at aapt.net.au's messages:
> Quoting Franklin <franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw>:
> > Tim Johnson's messages:
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > I will soon be retiring this machine
> > > KDE 3.2.3, KMail 1.6.2, slackware 10.0
> > > and replacing it with a new one.
> > >
> > > This will be ubuntu 7.04 (amd_64) with KDE 3.5.6 and
> > > KMail 1.9.6
> > >
> > > Question:
> > > Can I copy my ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail to the same path on the
> > > new machine and retain the same configuration.
> >
> > configuration:
> > ~/.kde/share/config/kmail*
> >
> > mail data:
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
> >
> > copy the above folders and you'll keep your configuration and mail.
> > Of course you'd better backup your ~/.kde first if possible, just in
> > case.
>
> <snip>
> To keep any mail you'd need to copy over your ~/Mail directory and for
> email address' you'll need a directory in ~/.kde which I believe is called
> kabc but I can't check to be ceetain if that's the correct name right now.
>
> Usually when I install a new slack system I just copy over my entire .kde
> directory to save all my settings for all aps but kde in slack is set up
> just as kde developers intended some other distros modify to suit and I
> can't say if that is the case with ubuntu
>

kabc folder is storing the contacts' information which saved in the 
KAddressBook.  And yes, if you want to keep your contacts' information, you 
also need to copy ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc.  For KAddressbook's configuration 
it might be in the ~/.kde/share/config/kaddressbook*.


Regards,
Franklin
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