I moved my data from one Kubunt-14.04-PC to a newer Kubuntu-14.04-PC. On both of them is KMail 4.13.3 installed. So I exported for each Account the in-box and the send-folder and then imported them successfully - nearly. Yesterday I discovered that all attachments are lost, in every Account, incoming and send.

I also tried the pimsettingexporter (KMail > Extras > Mail-Data-Export) but mysqldump couldn't be found. Another try was marking several Mail, right-click, save as... First it looks fine but KMailCVT (Files > import Mails>) also imported the mails without attachment and a simple Files > open only shows the first mail.

Is there a way to import mails including the attachments? Or what did I wrong?

The KDE-Systemsettings say that "local folder" is stored in ~/.local/share/local-mail. It looks like they are stored in ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory because there are e.g. 500 elements in ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/.Versendete Nachrichten.directory/gmx-versendet/new and 50 elements in ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/.Versendete Nachrichten.directory/gmx-versendet/cur - and KMail shows 550 Mails in gmx-versendet.

I'm desperately looking for help.

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By now I made little progress. I marked all mails of one folder and saved them in one big mdox-file. Than, I used it as Mbox-resource. Now I can access the mails and the attachments from KMail. But the attachments are not marked with the icon in the mail-list and I can't quick-filter them. That's not satisfying.

I also took a closer look at pimsettingexporter (MySQL was not fully installed, so mysqldump couldn't be found). But where is the mail-data stored? The save-dialogue of pimsettingexporter has some options:

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identities
mails
mail transportation
resources
configuration

Imho could it be mails, mail transportation and resources. So I selected everything and took a closer look to the zip-archive. There are only 2 mbs-files over 100 MiB and they are clearly from the Opera-days (inbox and send of all accounts) the rest is less then 1 MiB in total - which couldn't be more than 7000 mails including all attachments. For comparison: the mbox-file I created earlier from the inbox of only one account is already 140 MiB big.