Re: Kmail backups

On Saturday 23 November 2002 3:38 pm, Werner Joss wrote:
> On Saturday 23 November 2002 15:30, Jonathan Hart wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to backup my Kmail install, including both all my accumulated
> > messages & prefs for the app if possible. Could someone tell me how to go
> > about it the best way?
>
> messages are usually stored in directory Mail in your home-directory -
> just make a complete backup of this folder (including subfolders !).

Does this folder get locked during/after KMail sessions? I ask as it won`t 
allow me to copy files across (to a Fat32 partition mounted as /shared) right 
now. I want to do a quick backup of this stuff so I can reinstall Linux in a 
cleaner way, with /home seperated.

> as for prefs/settings, look at ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc - all settings
> are in this file.
> HTH
> werner

Thanks Werner.

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