Kmail problems

[James Kerr]

On Monday 26 July 2010 Peter Nikolic wrote:

> On Monday 26 Jul 2010 18:13:55 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday, 2010-07-26, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > > Hi .
> > > 
> > > I have just installed opensuse 11.3   and have a working 11.2
> > > on a second drive  .
> > > 
> > > i need to transfere all my mail  and configurations over to the
> > > new 11.3 install   KDE 4.4.4 release2    Kmail 1.13.5 .
> > > 
> > > I have imported my actual mails from the old version althou i
> > > have to say the process does not really do a good job   but
> > > how do i get the new kmail to read and use the configs from
> > > the previous version    , I have too many mail accounts  to re
> > > do by hand all the time   and too many filters to redo by hand
> > > there should be a way of importing the settings
> > > 
> > >  ( i would have thought with the configs moved over it would
> > >  use them by
> > > 
> > > default but it does not  i have had this problem with kmail for
> > > the longest time  and it is about time it was fixed .
> > 
> > That sounds very strange. What version of KDE/KMail did you use
> > before? Unless the distribution change any paths all locations
> > should point to the old files and not require any importing at
> > all.
> > 
> > The only version which will require some sorts of importing will
> > be KMail2 (from KDEPIM 4.5) but that won't be released anytime
> > soon.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> Hi Kevin
> 
> The version i am trying to use the configs from is the version that
> came with KDE 4.3.1 on an opensuse 11.2 RC  version  it is a
> problem i have come across several times  unless i use kde as root
> but as a user i have always had to fight this problem and normally
> end up redoing it all by hand but thats going to take me a month
> of sundays to do now
> 

Are your UID/GID the same on both systems? If not, you'll have to 
chown the files that have been copied over.

Jim
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