[Users] Need help, moving from kmail-1.13.5 to claws-mail

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 23 February 2014 09:33:43 Michael A. Yetto did opine:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:05:35 -0500
> 
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> >Thinking that since both kmail-1.13.5 and claws-mail keep their
> >email corpus in $HOME/user/Mail, I spent a fews hour copying
> >the kmail email corpus over to $HOME/gene/Mail on a new drive,
> >quite some time back, so its out of date now.
> >
> >But I had to reboot to Ubu-12.04.4 LTS this evening so I
> >thought  I'd try one more time.  Claws-mail does see the
> >directory structure, but nothing else in that structure.  So I
> >blew it away since it was stale anyway.
> >
> >When booted to the 12.04.4 LTS install, its no problem to mount
> >the drive I'm running from right now at someplace handy like
> >media/ubu10.4.4 and restart the copy process.
> 
> Check out the "Mailbox conversion" section of the page at
> <http://claws-mail.org/tools.php?section=downloads>. There is a
> kmail-mailbox2claws-mail.pl script that should be helpful. I
> remember having to tweek it a little a few years ago, but I don't
> remember why or how.

Thank you Mike, I'll do that.

Cheers, Gene
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