On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:37, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 22:17, John R. Sowden wrote: > > I need to transfer my stored email (kmail) on my Suse 8.0 machine to my > > new Suse 9.3 box. What I have to transfer with is a DVD-RAM drive/media. > > How do I do this without wiping out my new mail, keeping indices intact, > > etc. > > The part about new mails on the new installation makes this a little bit > difficult. > > If your old ~/Mail only contained mbox file, you can import them in KMail > through Tools->Import messages (translated from German to English, might be > named slightly different) > > Actually mbox names that are not yet used in the new ~/Mail could be copied > into the directory (while KMail is not running) and KMail will see them on > the next startup. > > For a setup with maildir in both installations you could try this: > > - tar the old Mail dir > - create mbox folders for each folder in your current installation > - copy all messages into that mbox folders > - shutdown KMail > - remove Mail directory > - untar old Mail > - import new mail from their mbox files. > > Having a backup of both would be a good idea :) > > Cheers, > Kevin Thanks, you've given me a place to start. How do I know if I am using the mbox vs. maildir format? Just seeing a file call mbox? tia, -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.americansentry.net ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.