In which txt file does kmail keep email addresses?

[emmanuel_uk]

I am trying to find in which configuration file my distribution lists in kmail are stored

(and the emails in plain text as well while I am at it)

(need to do that because I want to use a .kde backup)

 

No luck within (unless I am not cherching well)

~/.kde/share/apps/kmail

~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc or kontactrc

~/.kmailrc

nor with google

 

I might cat the whole .kde directory and grep a known string

(might work)

 

Thanks

[neddie]

Sorry I can't help with kmail, I've never used it, but if you want to grep for a known string, do this:

grep -iR "known string" ~/.kde/

which means grep Recursively and case-insensitively for that string starting from that directory. It'll take a while if the directory is big but it should work.

[Mhn]

on my old cooker partition, (which I abandoned before summer) I have a folder .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/:

[mhn@secret mhn]$ ls .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/
drafts/  inbox/  inboxmbox  outbox/  sent-mail/  sentmbox  trash/

don't remember if I've created those myself though, or they have changed locations.

 

Nowadays I use thunderbird (mdv 2006), so cant say if it's the same now

[emmanuel_uk]

thanks for the help

eventually found emails and list were there

Why is it called abc, no idea, nevermind

$ ls .kde/share/apps/kabc

distlists lock/ std.vcf std.vcf_1 std.vcf_2 std.vcf_3 std.vcf_4 std.vcf_5 std.vcf_6 std.vcf_7

 

I had to use this bad bash script (could grep but would not tell me which file), so j tells me which file it was

find . -type f | while read i;

do

{

j=$[ $j+1 ]

echo $j

#cat $i | xargs ls -l | grep -v "No such file or directory"

cat $i | grep toto

}

done;

 

Very much like your grep -iR foobar `pwd`

thanks again