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