On Saturday 16 of June 2018 14:31:34 deloptes wrote:
> Glen Cunningham wrote:
> > 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 you copied your home directory - correct?
>
> > 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).
>
> I am not quite sure, if it would work, I did the migration long time
> ago. What I can recall is that there were some migration scripts
> automatically running when you first start TDE.
>
> Alternatively you can (of course first backup your ~/.kde3 directory)
> and you can try moving/renaming or copying ~/.kde3 to ~/.trinity
>
> I am not sure what I did when I moved to TDE - it might have been copy
> as I think it was quite easy.
>
> regards
>

If you migrate from KDE3 / Trinity v3.5.13.x, you can use script 
migratekde3 instead of manual rename.

Cheers
-- 
Slávek