make a 'save as' of emails in Kmail and save in an KDE folder

[John L Fjellstad]

Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> writes:

> I did a test and imported some messages from an old "Mail" folder
> (full of weird filenames like "1178094030.4915.8tr3y:2,S" in
> sub-folders. They are all
> in MIME format and can be mostly read with 'cat' or 'less' on the 
> command-line too.

KMail has an option to store email in Maildir format.
You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

> You don't have to go to any special trouble to export your messages
> from kmail - they are stored in $HOME/Mail and in that same common
> mime format.

Kmail doesn't store the email in $HOME/Mail.  It pretty much force you
to use .kde/share/apps/kmail, which is one of the weaknesses of kmail,
IMO (you can't use the same mailbox with different programs, if one of
the programs is kmail)

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John L. Fjellstad
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