[Users] Copy Claws to new computer

[Michael Rasmussen]

On 2025-04-16 09:57, Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:33:47 -0700
> rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> > Copy the ~/.claws-mail folder. It will work on the new OS.
> 
> If you have an MH mailbox, (you use POP and not IMAP), you will also 
> need to
> backup/copy your mailbox folder (or folders). By default  ~/Mail is the 
> mail
> directory.
> 
And since it is not sure that your user is given the same userid you 
must do the following after copying the folders and before starting 
claws-mail:
sudo chown -R your_user_name: /home/your_user_name/.claws-mail 
/home/your_user_name/Mail

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