Importing Kmail files from Kubuntu 6.06 to newer Kubuntu

[rswanson]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On 07/21/2012 07:16 PM, rswanson wrote:
>> I had to update my old system, (Kubuntu 6.06), and because the
>> files are so important to me as a listowner of a group , I backed up the
>> old drive and replaced it with a new HD and Kubuntu 11.04, but the new
>> kmail would not import the older kmail files. They are in the /Mail
>> folder, and are available, but the subject line is not readable.
>> I have tried importing the mail files with Kmail, Thunderbird, and
>> SeaMonkey, with no luck.
>> I installed the original Kubuntu HD in another computer, and I can
>> read the files, but that doesn't solve my problem.
>> Does anyone have any way to successfully import the older files to
>> my new system? Would it work to install another, older, Kubuntu system
>> and import the files that way? I can't just dump the system and start
>> again and there are too many files to do it manually. ( over 40,000 )
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>
> There should be an export/backup feature in your older version of kmail.
> So, from the machine with the older version, export it and copy that to
> your new machine and see if it will import. You might try the KDE
> website to see if there is a how-to export/import from an older version
> to a newer version as well. Ric
>
>
Thanks, I'll have a look.  I had been using sync to back up my system, 
so the files were the same as the originals.
Bob