From: maurice@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Thu, 31 May 2012 08:45:14 -0500, Buckaroo wrote:   
      
   > I am moving over to a machine with a fresh install of 2011. I have kmail   
   > now 1.13.5 and want to transfer at least my email and accounts if   
   > possible....   
   >   
   > Does anyone have some experience with moving their email over. The new box   
   > has a kmail version 2.X.X?   
      
    I suspect your Mandriva 2011's KMail version is something like 4.8.2 or   
   4.8.3.   
      
   I've been using KMail 4.8.2 on Mageia-2, and found 'importing' my email   
   collection quite easy, by mapping KMail's 'Local Folders' on to my existing   
   email folders.   
      
   (You woud probably find the *default* location in:   
                       ~/.local/share/local-mail   
      
   and if you copied the contents of your old ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail   
   into that you would probably find KMail would pick them up and run with   
   them.)   
      
   What I'm doing is trying Mageia-2 out without moving my email over,   
   by going into KMail 4.8.x's 'Local Folders' account and telling it to map   
   onto my existing Mandriva 2010.2 ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail.   
       You can add/delete files in that email store and KMail 4.8.2 will   
   quickly re-index, by default. Has been working very well.   
      
   (What's stopping me moving over to Mageia-2 full time is that this   
   well-performing KMail 4.8.2 has an Achilles heel: Its Find Messages is   
   broken...)   
      
   As to KMail settings, I just set the KMail 4.8.2 server accounts up   
   manually.   
      I passed the my addressbook over by copying ~/.local/share/contacts   
   as ~/contacts, and when creating a new Personal Contacts in addressbook   
   just handed that path (~/contacts) to it.   
     I found most 'group' lists came over, except for the first!)   
      
     Good hunting...   
   --   
   /\/\aurice   
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