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KMail: How to I Save Messages?

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Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 7:02am

KMail: How to I Save Messages?

Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum, but have been using KDE ever since I switched to Linux. I like it very much, and I can't wait to upgrade to KDE 3.5.

One question though re KMail --

-- I need to upgrade my Linux OS to its latest version. I'm going to do a clean install so that means erasing my data on my Linux partition. I'm afraid that would mean erasing all of my email messages on KMail. Is there any way to save these messages and copy them to another partition before I do the clean install? I'm been tinkering with the KMail menus, but I can't seem to find the right command.

Please help!

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Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 8:11am

RE: KMail: How to I Save Messages?

Mails are stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail or ~/Mail .
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Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 8:24pm

I'd also recommend to backup .kde/

And evn more important, I recommend using an archive, for example tar, to backup the Mail directory and the configs in order to avoid problems with file permission and ownership on restore.

For example when I backup my mail, which in my case reside in ~/Mail, I do it like this

Change to home directory
$ cd

create archive
$ tar cvjf mails.tar.bz2 Mail/

In case of restore
$ cd
$ tar xvjf mails.tar.bz2

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