In the Mandrake menu system: Networking -> Mail -> KMail Import
Or kmailcvt from a command line.
There's no option for importing other MBOX (standard UNIX) mailboxes, but
perhaps the Eudora or Pegasus import filters may work -- maybe with some
changing of file extensions of the mail files to those of Pegasus or Eudora.
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:46, Tim Holmes wrote:
> I don't use a GUI mail client, but my sister uses KMail. I thought I saw
> an option for import/export. Not sure if that means you can assimilate
> mail into your mail boxes, but if you can, all you should need to do would
> be copy the folders to your $HOME and then use Kmail's drop down menus and
> import them. That may do the job for you! tdh
>
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> | Try this, after closing Kmail and backing up all your mail files (just
> | in case):
> |
> | 1. In your /home/user/Mail directory, delete all *.index files.
> | 2. In this directory, make a subdirectory: ".newmail.directory"
> | 3. Copy your mail files from the other drive across into this
> | directory, leaving out *.index files.
> | 4. Do the same for the other drive, but make another directory to copy
> | to.
> | 5. Restart Kmail.
> |
> | On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:17, Richard Davies wrote:
> | > Hi,
> | >
> | > I have 3 different hard drives here that have come from 3 different
> | > systems and locations over the last 12 months.
> | > All of them have the directories /home/user/Mail with Mail
> | > containing different folders on each one inbox, outbox and sent mail
> | > being common to them all.
> | > I want to somehow merge all of these together on one drive so I can
> | > scan back through all of the last 18 months mail without having to
> | > load different mailboxes into Kmail.
> | >
> | > Thanks in advance for any bright ideas on how to do this.
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