<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Monospace'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 09:28:29 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2014 21:23:42 Clay Weber did opine: > > On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 08:14:48 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > The subject line seems to not be supported by the new kmail. > > > Both 1.13.5 and 4.11.5 have import as a selection in the file menu. > > > > > > However it seems Mint has moved the email storage location to > > > someplace buried under at least 5 levels of subdirs and its not even > > > in the user's home dir! Its in /usr someplace. > > > > > > So I booted to Mint16/kde, opened kmail and went to its import > > > function. Nice menu, but when it comes to selecting from where to > > > import FROM, it won't let you out of the confines of its inbox!!! > > > Now I ask you, if what I could see was there, would it not have been > > > already imported? > > > > > > Wouldn't one want to navigate to where the old email corpus, all > > > nicely mounted and accessible for copy operations, about 13Gb of it > > > so it could be imported, probably one directory at a time. All but > > > one directory there is in maildir format since the size of the inbox, > > > now 13 years old, is well beyond the capacity of a mailfile on a 32 > > > bit system. > > > > > > I am finding this less than humorous when there appears to be no way > > > to even have the new kmail, import its older sisters email database. > > > > > > Is there a tutorial that at least names the hoops I have to jump thru > > > to do this? > > > > > > Thanks all. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene > > > > fyi, Linux Mint KDE really is Kubuntu. It uses the ubuntu repos for > > everything that is not Mint-specific, so anything kubuntu related will > > work the same in Mint KDE as they are using packages made by the > > Kubuntu team. > > > > I do not think that Mint is putting mail in /usr, as that is not a > > directory that is writable by normal users. The actual mail is supposed > > to reside in ~/.local/share/local-mail these days (for pop > > mail)usually. > > > > Using the kmailcvt import tool, I believe you need to specify a folder > > *inside* your mail folder structure to import TO before it will proceed > > to the step where you choose where to import FROM, then it will > > recreate the folder structure being imported *inside* the folder you > > specified. I have not actually used this in some years as I moved all > > my mail accounts to imap, with only certain messages manually saved in > > local folders. It worked flawlessly for my small set of saved mails (2 > > years' light usage) If your mail is already in > > ~/.local/share/local-mail, you shouldn't have to import anything. A new > > set of tools I see but have not tried yet are the settings and data > > import/export things found under the Tools menu. > > All my local mail is in /home/me/.Mail right now as I am now rebooted back > to lucid LTS. > > I'll swap drives again tomorrow and check if I miss-understood where the > new .Mail dir is. If its in me/.local, that would be good. But it told me > I had to export the old mail first, but this kmail 1.13.5 has no "export" > utility that I have discovered. > > Thank you Clay. > You can leave it in ~/.mail, and point the importer to that folder; the mails should be imported into the new location, I believe without removing them from the original folder. Also, are you selecting the correct option in the dropdown menu? The top selection is Kmail Archive File (no idea where/how that is created - I think that is for manually archived folders, done via the right click menu or the Folder menu), but try "Kmail Maildirs and Folder Structure", which I neglected to mention :( -- Clay Weber (claydoh) <a href="http://kubuntuforums.net ">http://kubuntuforums.net</a> <a href="http://claydoh.com">http://claydoh.com</a> </body></html>