On Sunday 21 February 2016 15:39:57 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > 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 That might not be 100% good info, here on a wheezy system, its ~/Mail, and I can't remember when it was different. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>