Kmail account file anywhare

[cava]

I want to know kmail account that set up in GUI saved file anywhre.
I guess it maybe saved home/.local/share/???
Please let me know the holder location.

[dcurtisfra]

@cava:

You may have noticed that, when you first start KMail, for the very first time, some “Local Folders” are automagically created – <KMail – Message Folders>.

• Right click on the “Local Folders” Message Folder and select “Account Settings” –

You’ll see a “maildir” directory location like this –

/home/username/.local/share/local-mail

And, as the number of locally stored e-Mail increases, KMail will automagically begin using the following “maildir” directory to store all the locally stored “Local Folders” e-Mail –

/home/username/.local/share/.local-mail.directory

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You can, if you wish, create additional “maildir” directories within your user’s local directory environment – further information is here – <The KMail Handbook>

There’s some additional information related to KMail in the ArchLinux Wiki here – <Receive local mail in KMail>

[cava]

Hi dcurtisfa,
Thank your your mail.
I wanna introduce you what I wish to do.
I have been using Kmail .
This moment, I want to change PC reason of opensuse update from 15.0 to 15.6.
So I translated mail data from old pc ‘tar cxf akonadi_maildir_resource_0’ without using export data command reason of err.
Also it was impossible to translate account data from old pc using export data command.
So I want to know account data copy from old pc to new.
Could you tell me the location of account setup data?

[dcurtisfra]

@cava

So I translated mail data from old pc ‘tar cxf akonadi_maildir_resource_0’ without using export data command reason of err.

If yo still have the disk of the old PC available, take a look in –

~/.local/share/.akonadi_maildir_resource_0.directory/

Your local e-Mail should be in there.

• Copy everything in there over to a working directory on your new PC and then,
  simply point the KMail PIM Import tool to that directory – you must select the import method “Import KMail Maildirs and Folder Structure”.

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Please note that, you’ve quoted an incorrect usage of “tar” –

> tar --create --extract --file=ARCHIVE

I suspect that, what you really wanted to do was –

> tar --create --file=akonadi_maildir_resource_0.tar --verbose ~/.local/share/akonadi_maildir_resource_0

• In the absolute shortest form –

> tar cfv akonadi_maildir_resource_0.tar ~/.local/share/akonadi_maildir_resource_0