Re: Exporting mails from kmail

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To: For people using KDE on Linux with related
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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Exporting mails from kmail
Date: 05/07/07 09:09

> On Thursday 05 July 2007 11:56:57 John Andersen wrote:
> &gt; On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> &gt; &gt; Kmail stores its mail in
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. Don't ask
me why
> &gt; &gt; it's hidden, nor why kmail silently
overrides any attempt to put
it
> &gt; &gt; elsewhere, but that's one reason why
I want to change e-mail
client.
> &gt;
> &gt; If that's the best reason you have for
changing I suggest you are
> &gt; on the wrong track.  Its not at all uncommon
for kde applications
> &gt; to store stuff in the
&quot;hidden&quot; subdirectory structure.
> &gt; Thunderbird does not have half the features or
functionality of
Kmail.
> &gt;
> &gt; Hidden is not an apt description.  Its hidden
only in the sense
> &gt; of keeping it out of your way.
> &gt;
> &gt; &gt; When I start Thunderbird it offers to
import mail, but only of
one type:
> &gt; &gt; Communicator 4.0. I assume that will
not do.
> &gt;
> &gt; Kmail can import a gazillion different types
of mail.  If you are
> &gt; going to a package that can only deal with one
type, does that
> &gt; not tell you something?
>
> Besides, if you like to change the actual place mail is
stored, you could
m=
> ake=20
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail a symbolic link to that
other location

No: as I said, kmail overwrites it next time it runs. That
was the first
thing I tried.

> =20
> could use the KMail config file as Jean-Philippe once
pointed out:

I hadn't seen that before - thanks. Wouldn't it be nice if
this sort of
thing were in the documentation?

> And yes - KMail is better than Thunderbird.

I thought so too the last time I compared them, but I wanted
to check how
they compare now. I'll just stick with kmail if it's going
to be too hard to
do.

--
Rgds
Peter.


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