transfering an email corpus

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 08:14:48 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> The subject line seems to not be supported by the new kmail.
> Both 1.13.5 and  4.11.5 have import as a selection in the file menu.
> 
> However it seems Mint has moved the email storage location to someplace
> buried under at least 5 levels of subdirs and its not even in the user's
> home dir!  Its in /usr someplace.
> 
> So I booted to Mint16/kde, opened kmail and went to its import function.
> Nice menu, but when it comes to selecting from where to import FROM, it
> won't let you out of the confines of its inbox!!!  Now I ask you, if what I
> could see was there, would it not have been already imported?
> 
> Wouldn't one want to navigate to where the old email corpus, all nicely
> mounted and accessible for copy operations, about 13Gb of it so it could be
> imported, probably one directory at a time. All but one directory there is
> in maildir format since the size of the inbox, now 13 years old, is well
> beyond the capacity of a mailfile on a 32 bit system.
> 
> I am finding this less than humorous when there appears to be no way to
> even have the new kmail, import its older sisters email database.
> 
> Is there a tutorial that at least names the hoops I have to jump thru to do
> this?
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

fyi, Linux Mint KDE really is Kubuntu. It uses the ubuntu repos for everything that is 
not Mint-specific, so anything kubuntu related will work the same in Mint KDE as they 
are using packages made by the Kubuntu team.

I do not think that Mint is putting mail in /usr, as that is not a directory that is writable 
by normal users. The actual mail is supposed to reside in ~/.local/share/local-mail 
these days (for pop mail)usually.

Using the kmailcvt import tool, I believe you need to specify a folder *inside* your mail 
folder structure to import TO before it will proceed to the step where you choose 
where to import FROM, then it will recreate the folder structure being imported 
*inside* the folder you specified. I have not actually used this in some years as I moved 
all my mail accounts to imap, with only certain messages manually saved in local 
folders. It worked flawlessly for my small set of saved mails (2 years' light usage) If 
your mail is already in ~/.local/share/local-mail, you shouldn't have to import anything. 
A new set of tools I see but have not tried yet are the settings and data import/export 
things found under the Tools menu.



Clay Weber (claydoh)
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