Not necessary becauase I did it as my user and not as root.
root@AthLux:/home/meyer# ls -alh .kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail
insgesamt 68K
drwxr-sr-x 17 meyer meyer 4,0K Okt 21 20:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 meyer meyer 4,0K Mär 27 14:38 ..
drwxr-sr-x 2 meyer meyer 4,0K Mär 14 2018 cur
drwxr-sr-x 5 meyer mey
Thanks a lot.
I moved my mail backup data to $HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail
meyer@AthLux:~$ du -xh --max-depth=1 $HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail
749M/home/meyer/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/.Firma.directory
16K /home/meyer/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/Privat
72K /home/meyer/.kde4/sha
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