[Users] moving CM?

Paul claws at thewildbeast.co.uk
Thu Jun 11 14:23:45 CEST 2015


On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:28:38 -0700
rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote: 

> Running CM 3.8.0 [I know it's old :-) ]. I want to move data,
> settings, etc to another box, probably running a later version of
> CM. Is this possible between rather different versions? What is the
> best way to do this move? Is sequence important - CM then data, or
> data then CM, or mixed?

Make a tarball of ~/.claws-mail and of your MH mailbox, if you have
one. This will preserve the modification times, which is important.
Don't forget to include the dot files.

Do that and there will be no problem with moving the data.

with regards

Paul



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