On Sunday 21 February 2016 01.41:18 Glen Cunningham wrote: > Reply to my own post for the archives. > > On Sunday 21 February 2016 09:38:25 Glen Cunningham wrote: > > Thanks for the try, Nik, > > > > On Sunday 21 February 2016 03:39:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > It's that simple :-) > > > > NO! It is not that simple. > > (...) > > Laboriously copied the above 6 files/directories from .kde3 on the old > box to .trinity on the new one. > That did not work! Kmail failed to start. > Deleted the 5 config files, restarted kmail, at least kmail started > this time and my old mailboxes seem to have survived. > > There has gotta be a better way! > Cheers, > Glen It should - almost - work the way Nik indicated. There are possibly a few things to edit when you move to .trinity (but that will be only once). Mainly, did you edit /.trinity/share/config/kmailrc ? In the last part of the file (after the mailboxes), you have the path to your mail directory. In (very) old time this would have been ~/mail , but somwhere in KDE history it was relocated to a ./kde3 subdirectory, usually $HOME/.kde3/share/apps/kmail/mail. You must change that to $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail As far as I remember that's all I had to do (apart from copyinf the directory). Thierry