[Users] Storage of emails and transfer from an old config directory to new

Cia Watson ciamarie at centurylink.net
Mon Aug 11 18:57:00 CEST 2014


On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:12:30 +0100
James Morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Warning: horrible tangled mess here.
<snip>
> But then I also found $SOME_OTHER_HOME/.claws-mail which did have a
> clawsrc file, so with Claws fired up there could be seen all the old
> folders I moved my emails into, along with counts of the emails
> believed to be there within.
> 
> However warnings were issued about a missing files named
> $HOME/Mail/$FOLDER/stat. I don't think this $HOME/Mail folder existed
> previously - but $SOME_OTHER_HOME/Mail does exist but no files name
> stat within it.

I'm sending a quick reply, because I have to get to work. However, your old
email messages should be in the ~/Mail folder. Check the location of the #MH
folder, which is probably Mail, in the folderlistrc (I think). 

Cia W.



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