Merging mail backup with current

On Saturday 06 October 2001 11:54 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Anyway, now I have a backup of literally years of emails and I have this
> current set of email files from the last week or so. How do I merge the
> two?

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.
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