Lost Email

[Nathaniel Homier]

On 12/04/2012 06:31 AM, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 08:01 -0500, terry at leetuckert.net wrote:
>> Greetings: 
>>   
>> I have moved from Kubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04. I was using Kmail and
>> made a backup of all that using akonaditray. I have the file but I am
>> not able to import it into Kmail on Ubuntu 12.04. Does anyone have any
>> pointers to help solve this problem? 
>>   
>> Thanks... 
> 
> Stop using client software to store your email and move it all to an
> IMAP server. The advantages are numerous.
> 
> I made the move a couple of years ago and have no regrets.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
IMAP is all fine and dandy, I use it.  However, important emails should
still have a local copy as a back up.

Terry does kmail use mbox format and do you still have your old
dot.directory for your email program.