Kmail backup mail

[Calgarian]

I have an HP Pavilion Dv5 laptop and a desktop. The desktop is Kubuntu 12.10, up-to-date. I am doing a new install of 12.10 from the DVD on the laptop. I only use it to travel and my last trip was pre-12.10 and that time the backupmail process also failed. I did a backupmail run from my desktop machine and transfered that via USB stick to my laptop. This was done after the very basic install with no tuning done at all. I did a backupmail restore from this file onto my laptop. I then started Kmail and I have no mail folders and no mail accounts. How does one move Kmail from one computer to another, correctly. I want all my settings, both my accounts, all my mail folders, and all their content on the second machine? In essence, a complete duplicate of what I have on my desktop. I thought that Kontact/Kmail was building backupmail to do just this? I am getting frustrated with Kmail since Akonadi came along and made it so complex under the covers. There must be lots of people who want to move a full Kmail setup to a second machine that is a duplicate of the first one, at least for mail. I have Googled and searched the forums and nothing I've found so far works. TIA

Do I need to do both an Akonadi tray back and restore as well as the backupmail? If so, what order?

[luggw1]

I have an HP Pavilion Dv5 laptop and a desktop. The desktop is Kubuntu 12.10, up-to-date. I am doing a new install of 12.10 from the DVD on the laptop. I only use it to travel and my last trip was pre-12.10 and that time the backupmail process also failed. I did a backupmail run from my desktop machine and transfered that via USB stick to my laptop. This was done after the very basic install with no tuning done at all. I did a backupmail restore from this file onto my laptop. I then started Kmail and I have no mail folders and no mail accounts. How does one move Kmail from one computer to another, correctly. I want all my settings, both my accounts, all my mail folders, and all their content on the second machine? In essence, a complete duplicate of what I have on my desktop. I thought that Kontact/Kmail was building backupmail to do just this? I am getting frustrated with Kmail since Akonadi came along and made it so complex under the covers. There must be lots of people who want to move a full Kmail setup to a second machine that is a duplicate of the first one, at least for mail. I have Googled and searched the forums and nothing I've found so far works. TIA

Do I need to do both an Akonadi tray back and restore as well as the backupmail? If so, what order?

Take a look at http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...les-from-11-04. I was updating from 11.04 so I don't think the Akonadi issue was as great, but it did work. To back everything up inthe filesystem. I'm not sure that it would cover the user account configuration. When I did the upgrade, the home partition is separate from the root partition, so the .kde hidden folder remained. This contained the Kontact config info, which successfully imported when I first started the new installation.

This is probably not the most desirable way to do it as all the other KDE settings are included too, but I haven't found any negative side effects yet.

HTH
Bill Lugg