[Mageia-discuss] Need advice: Transfer KMail settings and content from KDE3 to KDE4

[AL13N]

> Hi.
>
> I want to ask the community for advice upon transfering my KMail contents
> from a box running KDE3 to one running KDE4.
> I have a large ~/Mail folder with 765M of mail that I wan't to transfer
> from an old box still running mdv2008.1, and have KDE 3.5.9 and KMail
> 1.9.9. I have delayed this transfer mainly because the current computer
> perfoms the task quite nicely and works just as I want it to. But it's
> getting old, so I need to do this at some point anyway.
>
> I need to transfer all settings, including several accounts, identies,
> filtering rules and the address book.
> What do I need to transfer in order to accomplish this?
> And what, if anything do I need to reconfigure after the transfer in order
> to make KMail on the receving system to recognice all settings?

i have no idea, but i think the jump is too large, i would just do a
remote imap connection or something and copy the emails over manually /
folder.

i would export address book and reimport

and i would do all the other stuff (identities, filtering rules, accounts)
manually