[Users] claws back up

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Oct 7 12:18:01 CEST 2018


On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 11:14:21 +0200, Colin Leroy-Mira wrote:
>On 07 October 2018 at 05h56, OL49-69 wrote:
>> I have made a complete hash of transferring claws from a linux
>> lubuntu pc to a  mint pc - I have my settings but not my old emails.
>> For future reference please could someone tell me how to back up
>> claws and do a proper transfer of the settings, emails, address book
>> etc  
>
>The default MH mailbox lives in ~/Mail (by default). To transfer
>everything from one computer to another, you need to backup and restore
>~/.claws-mail/ and your hypothetical MH mailbox(es). If you only have
>IMAP accounts, just ~/.claws-mail/ is enough.

Perhaps ~/.bogofilter and/or other files of software used with Claws,
too, maybe files related to e.g. spamassassin or e.g. gnupg.




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