Making kmail5 work from kmail-1.9 mails?

[rhkramer at gmail.com]

On Friday, December 03, 2021 08:41:51 AM Gene Heskett wrote:
> In my quest to get a working email agent, first question is "how do I get
> kmail5
> 
> to recognize and read, about 7 gigs and 45 maildir folders worth of old
> kmail-1.9 mail"?
> 
> 
> Ideally it should create folder entries in the left panel simply by finding
> the folder in
> 
> /home/$me/Mail, as it is already there, but currently invisible to kmail5.

Just postulating because no one else has responded -- maybe kmail5 can't read 
maildirs directly but somehow have to be input to or recognized by Akonadi?