[kdepim-users] moving to a new machine

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 19 October 2008 13:16, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2008, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > This box runs kmail 1.9.4 under KDE 3.5.4,  Slackware 10.something,
> > I'm not sure any more which version...
> >
> > I just did a new install of Slackware 12.1 to another box,  and want
> > to migrate my mail and settings and filters and whatnot over to it.
> > I can copy all of the mail over,  no problem,  but I'd also like to
> > be able to have all of my settings,  all of my filters,  and my
> > address book and such as well. What all do I need to copy besides the
> > mail itself?
>
> I take this opportunity to point you to the KMail FAQ at
> userbase.kde.org. Since your question is probably the MFAQ (most
> frequently asked question) on this mailing list it is of course
> answered there:
>
> http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/Tips

Noted,   and browsed.

> FWIW, I prefer Werner's approach to copy all of ~/.kde over the
> copy-only-what's-needed approach.

I was wondering about any possible incompabitilities between the two versions,  
mostly.

> > And will the rest of this stuff just work?  Or am I in for spending a
> > bunch of time re-doing my setups...?
>
> It should just work, but we cannot guarantee it.

Well,  I'll "copy" rather than "move" then.  :-)

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