Am 28. Jul, 2003 schw=E4tzte Knoppix and UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTERKnoppixso:

> How do I put one users email into another users box? They are in the same
> group. User knoppix froze when the load icons reached 'Initiating
> peripherals.' I just created another user because I don't want to be user
> 'knoppix'! I want to be 'bmike1'.
> (if you're wondering, I got in by entering as user 'root' and then 'su
> knoppix'.

Just willy-nilly copying over configs will likely create the same problem
for the new user account.

You never had kmail configured properly, so we don't need the config files.

Mail will be in /var/mail/<username> and directories in the home directory.

Mail often goes in ~/mail or ~/Mail. evolution is annoying and puts it in
~/evolution/mail. I'm not certain about kmail.

Find the mail for the knoppix user. See if your new user account has simila=
r
files already. If it has similar files you'll need to move all of the
knoppix mail into a subdirectory and combine things by hand.

Let's say kmail uses the Mail directory and both accounts have one.

As bmike1 make a subdirectory in your Mail directory.

mkdir ~/Mail/knoppix

You'll need to do the following as root.

cd /home/knoppix
find Mail | cpio -pvdm /home/bmike1/Mail/knoppix
cp -p /var/mail/knoppix /home/bmike1/Mail/knoppix/knoppix.inbox
chown -R bmike1 /home/bmike1/Mail/knoppix

The third line is only necessary if you have mail in /var/mail/knoppix,
which you probably don't.

Please look at the kmail configs and set it up to show your email address.

ciao,

der.hans
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