[kdepim-users] How to import Maildir after re-installing?

[Thomas Taylor]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:31:57 +0200
Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Monday 19 April 2010 22:07:16 Thomas Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Any suggestions?  I really need to get some messages from January of this
> > year but have the mail server (comcast.net) set to delete after 90 days.
> 
> I'm not sure about kmail (others will hopefully fill in), but IF you have
> the Maildir still on your disk, then it's just a matter of going to the
> location and fire up a grep (or cg) there searching for files (-l option)
> pointing to the mails you really need fast.
> 
> Then just watch them with less/most and retrieve the information you need.
> 
> back yo kmail:
> 
> What setting did you use beforehand? POP/IMAP/IMAP with local storage?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Carsten
> _______________________________________________

Thanks Carsten, I'll give grep a try.

I was using POP only.  Been using that for years and haven't seen any
advantage to change yet.

-- 
Tom Taylor - retired penguin
openSuSE 11.3-M5 x86_64
KDE 4.4.2rel3, FF 3.6.3
linxt-AT-comcast.net
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