Re: [Evolution] switching from KMail to Evolution

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 19:23 +0100, matthias meyer gmx li wrote:
> I like to switch from KMail 5.9.3 to Evolution 3.30.5-1.1.
>
> I've already installed Evolution in my Debian/KDE environment.
> Unfortunately the menu "File/Import/data and configuration from old
> programs"
> informs me that he was looking for data for Pine, Netscape,iCalendar
> and KMail
> but nothing found.
> I'm very sure to have ~5GB Mails in maildir format in $HOME/KMail/.
>
> How I can import my mails into evolution?

Evolution only recognizes KDE 4 directories:
* $HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail - for mail
* $HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kabc - for contacts

In 3.36 this would be answered under "Help > About".

Cheers,
andre
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Andre Klapper  |  ak-47 gmx net
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