[wplug] KMail ate my mail!

[Jonathan Billings]

On 6/4/05, k.abel at voidship.net <k.abel at voidship.net> wrote:
> During a reinstallation of my OS, I went to transfer the KMail maildir (~/Mail).
> I archived it and threw it onto an external HDD, then reinstalled, everything
> going smoothly. When I went to transfer the Mail directory back into my home
> directory, nothing came through.  I managed to change the /.kde/share/config
> (ure)/kmailrc entry 'folders="~/Mail"' which transferred all my folders into
> KMail.  All the folders, however, are empty.  This is no good.  Is there a trick
> to convering all the .blahfolder.index or .blahfolder.ids files to actual mails
> or is my horrible suspicion correct that the actual data is stored elsewhere that
> I didn't get?

I believe that kmail uses 'Maildir' format, so messages would be
stored in a ~/Mail/cur directory.  Do you have those?  I think the
.blahfolder.index and .blahfolder.ids are just helper files for the
client.


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  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com