Bug 85656 - backup and restore emails and config
Summary: backup and restore emails and config
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.6.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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: 86458 94454 146013 162061 171030 188677 193332 197344 201084 203450 216668 217983 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2004-07-21 23:45 UTC by Giovanni Venturi
Modified: 2012-07-25 17:40 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

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Description Giovanni Venturi 2004-07-21 23:45:33 UTC
Version:           1.6.2 (using KDE 3.2.3, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.7

Could be usefull if KMail could have a way for backup and recover all email and also configuration about account and all KMail stuff. Very usefull.
Comment 1 Tom Albers 2004-07-21 23:58:01 UTC
Is this a dup of bug 34382 ?
Comment 2 Giovanni Venturi 2004-07-22 00:04:22 UTC
Not exactly

Comment 3 Tom Albers 2004-07-22 00:21:12 UTC
ok well, maybe a dup of bug 66298 ? 
Comment 4 Giovanni Venturi 2004-07-22 11:17:42 UTC
No. I asked in my whislist to save all related configure files of KMail from 
$HOME/.kde/share/config directory into a bzipped file with also all Mail 
directory, or specifying the directory of the emails to archive. If this 
feature doesn't want to be realized in future KMail version remove this 
"bug". I can't tell you nothing, but if in future studying KDE, KMail I can 
realize this future could I do it? (I think I need at least one year from now 
and some suggest)
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Comment 5 Tom Albers 2004-07-22 21:56:29 UTC
If you create a good patch, we could include it...
Comment 6 Michael Jahn 2004-07-25 15:03:09 UTC
Wow. These are all very similar, yet not similar enough to be dupes (IMHO): bug 55827, bug 77744, bug 85656, bug 34382 and bug 76690.
Comment 7 Carsten Burghardt 2004-08-03 09:12:11 UTC
*** Bug 86458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Giovanni Venturi 2004-12-05 15:51:57 UTC
*** Bug 94454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 S. Burmeister 2004-12-05 16:44:53 UTC
Actually this should be assigned to kontact, as backing up email is not enough since working with kmail is bound to kaddressbook as well as korganiser and knote. Thus Kontact should have a central tool to export all its data and configuration in order to allow the user to easily restore its working environment on a different computer, or after installing a new linux.
Comment 10 Giovanni Venturi 2004-12-05 16:50:10 UTC
I'm trying to write the code for archiving emails. Do I have to stop or I can 
continue?

Comment 11 Steven Szelag 2004-12-05 16:58:44 UTC
please continue to writing your code...and include the backup feature for the mail directory and kmail settings, please - if you can do it - i hope it  ;) its a very usefull feature
Comment 12 Thomas McGuire 2007-05-27 13:06:39 UTC
*** Bug 146013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-17 14:46:58 UTC
Similar bugs: 
 bug 34382 
 bug 55827 
 bug 76690 
 bug 77744 
 bug 85656 
 bug 89100 
 
 According to some people, these bug reports differ slightly in details, so I won't mark them as duplicates now. 
Comment 14 Thomas McGuire 2008-05-16 19:00:49 UTC
*** Bug 162061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 FiNeX 2009-04-03 11:38:56 UTC
*** Bug 188677 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Christophe Marin 2009-07-08 01:38:28 UTC
*** Bug 197344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Christophe Marin 2009-07-22 22:42:04 UTC
*** Bug 193332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Christophe Marin 2009-07-22 22:42:15 UTC
*** Bug 201084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 Christophe Marin 2009-07-22 22:45:51 UTC
*** Bug 171030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 FiNeX 2009-08-11 19:32:29 UTC
*** Bug 203450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 FiNeX 2009-11-29 20:50:54 UTC
*** Bug 216668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-08 00:05:57 UTC
*** Bug 217983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 23 George L. Emigh 2011-07-31 20:14:13 UTC
In Kmail2 (KDE 4.7.0) Wish for Option to Export all mail to Maildir format.

Begging even.
Comment 24 Laurent Montel 2012-07-25 17:40:45 UTC
In kmail 4.9 there is a new program backupmail which does it.