You might try and suggest that your friend set up the second computer with
Kmail and have it specify that messages should be left on the server.  That
way the home computer would be the data bank and the notebook/laptop would
allow staying up-to-date while away without any loss of messages.  It works
for me and saves space on my notebook.

Paul

-------Original Message-------

From: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Saturday, August 03, 2002 08:01:44 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Copying KMail files to laptop

I'm helping a Linux-Newbie friend who wants to duplicate his KMail setup
from 
his desktop to his laptop (both are running SuSE 8.0, so same version of 
KMail). Simply trying to copy the files to floppy or Compact Flash does not 
work (permissions?) but he can make a tarball of the Mail directory.

I'm sure this is not enough as there are config files, etc. that also need
to 
be handled correctly.- mostly in .kde/share/config & .kde/share/apps. 

My question is whether this is a good idea or is there a better way to
access 
his POP account on two computers. IMAP would be nice but his Earthlink 
account is POP3 and he has a rather slow dialup connection.

Searching the KMail list archives and Google hasn't make me any smarter.

Thanks in advance,

Dennis Kibbe
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