Importing mail etc into Kontact KDE4

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#1

I would like to import my mail etc. from Kontact KDE3 to Kontact KDE4. Which directories are used to hold the KDE3 stuff?

Thanks

#2

hi,
if i’m not mistaken all your mails are in:
/home/yourname/.kde/share/apps/kmail

#3

nikotron wrote:

>
> hi,
> if i’m not mistaken all your mails are in:
> /home/yourname/.kde/share/apps/kmail
>
>

You’ll also need /home/yourname/.kde/share/config/kmailrc but, if my
experience is anything to go by, that won’t be enough. There must be some
other files out there that I’ve forgotten about since the last time I went
through this nausea.

Why can’t the KDE4 version do the importing automatically? I’ve had to do
this hand-copying a number of times in the past whenever there’s been a
change to the Kontact entities and am damned annoyed that a better system
hasn’t yet been devised.

–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

#4

Hear! Hear! I quite agree…

#5

I just today “migrated” Kontact from 3.5 to 4.1. What a coincidence :slight_smile:

This is what I copied from my old system:
~/Mail, of course
~/.kde3/share/apps:
akregator knode knotes kontact kmail korganizer
~/.kde3/share/config:
akregator*
kmail*
korganizer*
email*
knode*

Copy those files to ~/.kde4/share/…

New Kontact now works with old data and settings, but I’ll probably need some more files to copy, which will be revealed while using it.