This is good information and I figured that this sort of process would work.

What I am really looking for it a way to take the email files that are live
right now in my Kmail and MERGE them with the backup.  For example, in the
live Kmail I have an Inbox folder.  In my backup set there is also an Inbox
folder.  How do I merge the contents of both Inbox folders so I only have one.

The only way I can think of is to do the process you have described, naming
a folder "OldInbox," copy the backup Inbox file to this file name, run
Kmail and drag the email from Old to current and then delete the old
folder.  I just thought that maybe there would be something "slicker" that
that.

Alan

At 11:44 AM 10/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
>On Saturday 06 October 2001 11:54 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
>If you have all of your archived mailboxes in standard mbox format (you
>probably do) and you want them all in one directory, then just copy them
>over to $HOME/Mail and KMail will automatically pick them up.
>
>If you want them in sub-folders (subdirs), then you'll have to work a
>*little* bit harder (but not much).  First, create your entire sub-folder
>tree using KMail ("Create Child Folder").  Then, exit KMail and copy over
>all of your archived mailboxes into $HOME/Mail and restart KMail.  KMail
>will recognize all of the mailboxes you just put in there.  Then, right
>click on each of the mailboxes and select Properties.  The first entry
>allows you to change the mailboxes parent.  Select the sub-folder where
>you want the mailbox to be and click OK and you're good to go.
>
>If you have a HUGE amount of email, then it *might* be faster if you
>created all the sub-folders and moved all the mailboxes outside of KMail.
>Let me know if you want to go that route.
>-- 
>Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
>KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
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