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antares

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Friday, July 14th 2006, 1:32pm

Kmail folder

Hello, I want to know where does kmail store the data. The mail folder.
I'm using two diferent distros and I want to share that folder. I'd like to set it in a personal directory, is it possible?
Thank you.

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Friday, July 14th 2006, 3:17pm

Not absolutely sure, but I think it's in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
OS: Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) | KDE 3.5.3
Computer Specs: AMD Sempron 2200 1.5Ghz | VIA KM266 Pro 8235 chipset | nVidia GeForce MX 4000 128MB DDR-RAM 32-bit AGP 8x

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Friday, July 14th 2006, 3:44pm

And can I change it to other pathl?
I really need it.
Thank you.

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Saturday, July 15th 2006, 1:35pm

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Originally posted by antares
And can I change it to other pathl?
I really need it.
Thank you.


Are you familiar with symbolic links?
For example, if you already have one distro on one partition with kmail
that you can mount as /old in the new distro, then you should be able to:
% ln -s /old/home/antares/.kde/shar/apps/kmail ~/.kde/shar/apps

Two disclaimers:
1) I work in an IMAP environment,
with all email folders (except Drafts and Trash) on a server.
This allows them to be shared across many different systems.
Consequently, I lack personal experience with local kmail folders.

2) kmail is not particularly good about compatibility among versions,
so accessing folders from different versions could corrupt them.

You may also want to share address books across distros.
The same techniques and concerns apply to KAddressBook.

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Saturday, July 15th 2006, 3:02pm

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Originally posted by blek
Are you familiar with symbolic links?
For example, if you already have one distro on one partition with kmail
that you can mount as /old in the new distro, then you should be able to:
% ln -s /old/home/antares/.kde/shar/apps/kmail ~/.kde/shar/apps



Well, that's what I did, but still not working, it doesn't recognise the accounts.
IMHO this should be easier.
I don't know what to do yet, but as soon as I figure it out, I'll post it here.
Thank you.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "antares" (Jul 15th 2006, 3:03pm)

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Saturday, July 15th 2006, 3:53pm

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Originally posted by antares
IMHO this should be easier.

I completely agree, but it seems that many email applications
employ proprietary storage schemes.

Not sure this applies to your situation:
Using KMail to access folders on another partition