Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 6:54:08 pm salamandir wrote: i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm keeping KDE, in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to migrate successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a preferred way to migrate/upgrade email that doesn't lose data in the process. The first big question is what program do you use to read your mail? Second is where does that program store your mail? Third, what are the settings for that program? Fourth, are you planning on using the same e-mail reading program? One issue you may have to face is how is your disk partitioned? Is /home on a separate partition? (that really makes life easy. If it isn't, you will find out why) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212211811.20589.m...@neidorff.com
switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?
i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm keeping KDE, in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to migrate successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a preferred way to migrate/upgrade email that doesn't lose data in the process. -- namaste salamandir salaman...@spamcop.net - spam at your own risk http://przxqgl.hybridelephant.com/ Professional New Age Renaissance Man -- If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. -- Andrew Lewis
Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?
Your email data should be in your $HOME directory, so, if you keep the same versions of softwares, they should be able to reuse data without noticing the distro has changed. But for a safer way, I guess the best is so backup your $HOME dir. Le 19.12.2012 00:54, salamandir a écrit : i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm keeping KDE, in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to migrate successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a preferred way to migrate/upgrade email that doesn't lose data in the process. -- namaste salamandir salaman...@spamcop.net - spam at your own risk http://przxqgl.hybridelephant.com/ Professional New Age Renaissance Man -- If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. -- Andrew Lewis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/030b58cb5cbf4e7cc3a807e0f1784...@neutralite.org
Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:54 -0800, salamandir wrote: i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm keeping KDE, in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to migrate successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a preferred way to migrate/upgrade email that doesn't lose data in the process. I'm not a KMail user, but I guess for KMail it should easily work to set the path to the maildir directory by KMail's preferences. IOW, don't keep home, make a backup of home, you could copy it to another partition and then set the path to the maildir directory by the new installed KMail with an install that has got a complete new home. For Evolution's maildir I copy links to a new home, so I can use it with different installs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1355875286.2501.84.camel@q
