Migration

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:51 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> I am currently using OpenSuSE 10.2 on a machine that I built in 2000.  The 
> machine has broken a couple of times, so there have been upgrades.  
> Nevertheless, it labors running 10.2.  I haven't been disappointed with SuSE, 
> but it's not the same under Novel.
> 
> I'd like to migrate to a cheap new box (or laptop) and switch to a new distro, 
> probably Ubuntu.  I am also a KDE user and I'm seriously thinking about 
> switching to Gnome.  (How much market share does KDE have?)  The main problem 
> I forsee is that all my e-mail is in Kmail, and I'm not sure what would be 
> involved in migrating to another mail client.  I've heard nice things about 
> Pegasus Mail. 
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you can use kmail in Ubuntu by installing it if you wish as Ubuntu is
still going to include the base kde libraries so you can still use it.
My suspicion is that kmail would use mbox which virtually all mail
programs can import. (I use kde and the gnome mail application
evolution)

My own personal preference is to use my own imap server and use
fetchmail to retrieve e-mail and then I can use any e-mail client on any
computer but that does add quite a lot to the complexity.

Also wish to point out that there is Kubuntu which is the same thing but
uses KDE as primary desktop manager.

Craig