On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:32, Thereidos wrote: > W liście z pon, 06-09-2004, godz. 16:37, Marc Hultquist pisze: > > Does anyone know how to backup mail when using kontact as your general purpose > > mail client, I can see a import option, but as far as exporting I can't see > > anything, and I have mail that I _have_ to keep :\ > > > > Kind Regards > > All your mail is kept in ~/.Mail directory. Depending on option you've > chosen its mbox or maildir format. > You can just copy the directory to wherever you wish to backup and copy > in back afterwards. > Contacts are kept somewhere in ~/.kde directory.
With copying the mail, I'd watch out. Here's my crash and burn story. Around a year ago I managed to get my wife to switch to linux from you-know-what, and all was fine until I decided to do a backup and istall Mdk10.0 from scratch. With evolution and mbox format, I know copying to be a quick and elegant solution. So I did the copy thing with the ~/Mail directory, and though it had some error messages about some files, most of the things went through OK. Apparently not. I think everything was in maildir format, which doesn't like to be dragged and dropped (who does?). All in all I lost over half a year's worth of her email, setting back my other half's trust in linux by a century. I did a bit of experimenting aferwards, and if I wrapped up ~/Mail in a tar.gz, and unpacked it all after the install, nothing was lost. The moral of the story: if backing up, make sure the backup is successful before deleting the original. cheers Andras
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