On Monday 22 February 2016 00:05:41 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, Gene - this is the not 100% correct information.  You have not got a 
standard Wheezy system by any manner of means.  It was possible to keep mail 
in ~/Mail. which is where it was before, but only by deliberately hacking 
one's system. It is NOT where it is on a standard Wheezy/TDE system.  E.g., 
it is not on mine.  I migrated my mails, with help from the community, I did 
not hack and set up links or whatever in order to keep ~/Mail, although that 
was a possibility.  ISTR that I tried and made a mess of it.

Lisi