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

[Michael A. Yetto]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:34:25 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

>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new drive, quite some time back, so its out of date now.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.
>

Actually, I just found /usr/share/doc/claws-mail/tools/
with the same tolls right here on my system. The download is not
necessary, but friendly mocking might be called for.

-- 
Mike Yetto
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