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Tuesday, February 24th 2004, 11:02am

Getting Evolution into K-mail

Hi all

I was just wondering if there is a way to bring Evolution folders into K-Mail. I have a Mepis partition on my computer, and it has K-Mail. I am keeping it as a kind of backup to my regular operating system and I was thinking of putting my old e-mail on the system, just to back it up.
Mainly a curiosity/learning question. Thanks.

Jim Macdonald> Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl.

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Thursday, February 26th 2004, 7:39pm

Shouldn't be a problem.
Both programs use standard email formats like mbox or maildir.

Just copying Evolutions mail files or directories to KMail's (~/Mail) should work.

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Saturday, February 28th 2004, 11:29pm

Hi anda_skoa

Thanks for the response. I tried it and it doesn't work. Just creates a new inbox and ignores the Evolution mailbox. Not sure what to try now.

Jim

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Sunday, February 29th 2004, 10:16am

I tried to do the same thing and managed to get all my present mail - not an unmanageable amount - from evolution to kmail by converting the mbox format to maildir and then doing a "select all", "copy", from each evolution dir and pasting into the kmail directories (some of which I had to create or recreate such as it is.

My problem now is that there does not seem to be a mechanism for an easily moving the many, many, etc. filters that I have created in evolution and I don't want to have to redo them all again in kmail.

Hope this helps some.

Ogre
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