Making kmail5 work from kmail-1.9 mails?

[Gene Heskett]

.org



On Fri, 3 Dec, 2021 at 10:11 AM, Erik Quaeghebeur <mail.kde.org at equaeghe.nospammail.net> wrote:
 

To: kdepim-users at kde.org
> 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.

I think you want to create a custom account for that in the settings. See 
attached screenshot.



I have never seen that requester, where is it?


Alternatively, you can likely copy your mail onto the existing local 
maildir hierarchy.



That looks like this:
gene at coyote:~$ ls -l Mail
total 176
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  6 19:31 7x12
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:19 amanda
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  2 07:23 amanda-stf
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 18:21 Apache2
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 bug-tar
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  6 19:22 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:32 coco
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  5 15:23 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec  2 14:42 cur
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:23 debian
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 18:26 debian-arm
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:13 drafts
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  6 07:25 emc
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  5 15:27 fail2ban
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 18:27 fetchmail-users
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 geda
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  6 19:23 Gimp-user
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 gkrellm
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 gunsmith
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:24 ham
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  6 23:13 handloading
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 heyu_users
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  8 01:34 inbox
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  5 15:33 keep
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  8 01:34 kubuntu-users
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 linda
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:21 linux-rt
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec  2 14:42 new
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 nut
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:27 OffTopic
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 14:27 Oscad-disc
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  8 01:15 outbox
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  6 19:30 python
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 qucs
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  8 01:14 sent-mail
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 10:32 Sheldon
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  8 01:33 spam
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  8 01:33 spam-hold
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 18:33 TDE
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:13 templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec  2 14:42 tmp
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 trash
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 22:50 work
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov  7 02:32 Xorg
gene at coyote:~$ 

And I did get it to import that to a hidden mysql database. But now I have half
the screen height wasted in empty dirs I haven't found the delete button for yet.

Its bad enough I have subs for 47 mailing lists, each with its own folder. 11 lines
of empty folders and they are not deletible.
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