On Saturday 16 June 2018 22:29:29 Stefan Krusche wrote:
> Hi Glen,
>
> Am Samstag 16 Juni 2018 schrieb Glen Cunningham:
> > G'day All Trinity Gurus,
> >     I am currently running KMail on a very old KDE/Trinity
> > installation. /etc/issue shows "Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS"  which needs to
> > be pensioned off immediately.
> >     I have installed tde-14.0.4-ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
> > onto a newer computer.  The installation seems OK and I managed to
> > transfer the mozilla bookmarks to the new computer  but getting
> > KMail across has me stumped.
> >    Googling did not produce anything useful. :-(((
> >    On this old computer the KMail info seems to be stored in
> > /home/glen/.kde3/share/apps/kmail
> >    but the new installation seems to have a very different
> > directory structure.
> >
> >   So, can the KMail settings and emails be copied to the newer
> > computer? If anyone knows how, please let me know in GOF-speak
> > (that is words of 2-syllables or less).
> >
> > Ta,
> > Glen
>
> if you find these files in your old config directory, then copy all
> of them into the new one while kmail is not running:
>
> .trinity/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
> .trinity/share/config/kmailrc
> .trinity/share/config/kmailsnippetrc
> .trinity/share/config/emaildefaults
> .trinity/share/config/emailidentities
>
> Directories, filters and almost everything is stored in kmailrc. You
> will want your emailidentities, too, I guess. The other ones are not
> so important unless you want your previously configured sounds etc.
>
> In addition to the kmail data directory
> "/home/glen/.kde3/share/apps/kmail" which you already have copied,
> that should do the trick.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
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Thanks for the reply, Stefan,
   None of the files that you suggest exit in this old installation.
G.