Bug 171030

Summary: separate kmail data for easier migration+backup
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: wolfista <hans-r.biesel>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.9.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description wolfista 2008-09-14 11:51:48 UTC 
Version:           1.9.9 (using 3.5.9, Debian Package 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 (lenny/sid))

I have been using several Linux versions on separate partitions. Each of them contains kmail, with some hundred mails in several folders.
Now I'm installing a similar system on a new computer; several Linuxes on separate partitions.

wishes: 
(1) one common mail data folder on a common data partition, access from various kmail installations (only one at a time).
(2) easy way to transfer mail data from old Linux to new Linux.
(3) easy way to access kmail data, e.g. for backup, to export mails into other programs etc.
Possibly this does already work, but I don't find it in the documentation.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-04-03 11:39:40 UTC 
point 2 and 3 are a duplicate of bug 85656.
Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2009-07-22 22:45:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> point 2 and 3 are a duplicate of bug 85656.

and for the first point, symlinking $KDEHOME/share/apps/kmail/mail will work

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 85656 ***