[TriLUG] Moving KMail Settings

rasch at raschnet.com rasch at raschnet.com
Wed Jan 7 14:13:17 EST 2004


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:57:58PM -0500, Mike Mueller <linux-support at earthlink.net> wrote:
> How are you managing old emails?  In the past I tarballed everything and 
> moved it all to the new machine.  I'd like to lighten up the move this time.
> 
> Is there some way to save everything in a mail client agnostic way.  I am 
> thinking about changing to Thunderbird.  I want to fish out old emails 
> without worrying about what email client to use.
 
In general, I've found the best agnostic way to move emails is by using
IMAP.  Push all your email out to an IMAP server, then move it back
locally into your new client (in this case, thunderbird).

However, there may be a more direct path between KMail and Thunderbird.

Best of luck,
David
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