[kdepim-users] backing up Kmail

[Markus Feilner]

Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 13:49:51 schrieb Reid:
> Great.  That's the solution I was hoping for.  And I understand also how
> that archive can be imported.
> 
> A few questions are still not clear to me:
> 
>         Which directory is mail data stored in?

Good question, on KDE 4.8 I couldn't find it up to now. On KDE 3 and earlier 
versions of KDE 4, it used to be found in ~/kde/share/kmail* or simliar, with 
a .kde4 prefix. I also remember finding mailfolders under ~/local or so, but on 
this kde 4.8. thingy I'm still searching. Maybe I'll find it in the next 
minutes (searching with find, du and other bash tools...)



>         My next question has to do with migrating from Evolution to
>         Kmail.  I pull mail from several mail accounts, gmail being one
>         of them.  I don't delete the mail as I pull it and it, in a  way
>         this acts like a backup and also allows me to check messages
>         remotely.  But when I migrate I've got mail in that on-line
>         location, and mail data on my machine that will need to be
>         imported. Do you have any thoughts about the best way to go
>         about this migration.  I'm aware that in the Kmail import tool
>         there's a check-box that allows you to make a selection that
>         eliminates duplicates.  I assume that works.
> 
>         Any thoughts about migrating several accounts would be welcome.
>         Is it best to migrate the data first and then connect to the
>         account imap and pop accounts, or vice-versa?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> RSV869
> 
> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:41 +0200, Markus Feilner wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 10:23:44 schrieb Reid:
> > > Hello group-
> > > 
> > > I'm a long-time ubuntu user but new to Kmail.
> > > 
> > > What's the best way to back up my mail?  A built-in utility would be
> > > nice :-> .  Failing that can you point me to the directory where the
> > > mail messages reside.  I pull email from multiple mail providers but
> > > hope it's not spread all over the directory structure :->
> > > 
> > > More specifically, this is Kubuntu 11.10, running Kmail 4.8.2
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > RSV869
> > 
> > There are several ways. the best and obvious is in the Menu:
> > 1) right-click on a folder and select "backup folder" (on my - german -
> > system it says "Ordner archivieren". You can then select a compression
> > format and a folder to save to. Later you can re-import these Mails.
> > 
> > 2) Second, you can save single mails (or several at a time) from the list.
> > 
> > 3) I am also starting to work with Monharc, (http://www.mhonarc.org/),
> > which is converting mail stores to static HTML - which is exactly what I
> > want for long-term-archive on DVD or Webservers. Seems a nice tool, but
> > not (yet?) integrated with KDE or Kmail...
> > 
> > Have a nice weekend!
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