[vox-tech] Email

[Richard Harke]

The kmail versions are 4.14.2 on my old machine and 4.14.1 on my new macine.
I'm not entirely sure of what format mail files they use but I looked at a
few of the files
and those appeared to contain a single email message each. So I guess that
is maildir
format. I already used pimsettingsexporter from kmail but the resulting
file did not
seem to contain the actual emails, just configuration data. This was
imported into
kmail on the new machine, again using pimsettingsexporter. But since there
were no
message files I brought those over in an archive made with pax.
The "kmail resource folders is broken" shows up as a bug, no. 310899 on
bugs.kde.org
for version 4.9.3 of kmail in November 2012.
On my old machine I tried a python program called kmail2thunderbird.py but
it seemed to
think the files were already ok. Copied into the folder under thunderbird
they show up
by file name in the folders pane but thunderbird does not show them in the
message pane
and will not open them.. Probably because they are not mbox format.

Richard


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Richard Harke (paleopenguin at gmail.com):
>
> > Rod's link included the suggestion to make the conversion on the old
> > machine which I'm going to try as kmail is still working there.
>
> It's good that KMail is still working there, but you will need to
> consider what you're going to _do_ with KMail and its message store
> files.
>
> The page Rod cited (a good page that, FYI, gives a lot of the same
> advice I've given you, including the recommendation of using
> Thunderbird's Import/Export Tools extension, and addresses quite a lot
> of other situations, besides) is necessarily a bit vague about KMail --
> because different versions of KMail have, as I said, used diverse
> message store file formats.  (The page says Kmail uses a compatible
> version of the mboxrd flavour of mbox, which is true, but it also has
> used other data store formats over time.) The version you were using
> might have used mbox file format, which would have been convenient, but
> also might have used something else.  Irrespective of the file format,
> KMail can doubtless _export_ to mbox format, which would also be useful.
>
> You'd have gotten a more exact answer sooner if you'd revealed what file
> format your version of KMail used -- or at least the version number of
> KMail.  You've not provided either.
>
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