Bug 279286

Summary: Make it easy to transfer mail archives between computers
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Médéric Boquien <mboquien>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: laurent.lacote, montel
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Médéric Boquien 2011-08-03 13:08:43 UTC 
Version:           2.1.1 (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

With the new akonadi version it is getting very complicated to transfer the mails archives from one computer to another. With kmail 1 taring/untaring the root mails folder was enough to transfer the mail. With the akonadi version proceeding the same way the mails are ignored.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
It would be convenient to have an option to export an entire tree of mail folders. Currently one has to click on individual folders/select all mails/save as, which is particularly bothersome when there are many folders.
Comment 1 Laurent 2011-09-20 13:12:54 UTC 
Hi all, so far fervent user of Thunderbird, I try to progressively migrate my data and uses towards a 100% KDE environment.
Most things Thunderbird do, Kmail does as well, sometimes better (finally a tool with size of IMAP folders).

Still, import/export possibilities is crucial for me, both at work and at home. 
I've been using a godlike add-on called import/export tools (https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html).

This allows to export groups of messages, folder or folder trees to eml/html/mbox format, and import eml/mbox format.
This is incredibly useful in entreprise to quickly archive most important email or a full file history in a format directly viewable (html and/or eml).

Is there any plan to add such feature?
Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2012-07-08 17:32:52 UTC 
I create a new program backupmail which allows to import export config/mails/resources etc.
(in 4.9)