At 18:18:52 on Saturday Saturday 04 July 2009, "Rajko M." wrote:

On Saturday 04 July 2009 07:41:26 am Stan Goodman wrote:

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I keep my Kmail correspondence archived in monthly folders in Kmail's Local Folders hierarchy. I would like to remove these from the hard disk altogether, onto a CDROM.

What I do not see, however, is how I would then be a ble to access them. If there is a way for me to point Kmail at them, or perhaps in some other way to make them available for reading, it has escaped me.

What can I do?

Hi Stan.

This is just to increase number of users that need such functionality accessible from Configure KMail.

Currently you may try workaround by creating empty backup/archive folder in KMail. When you need to see backup/archive mount CD/DVD there and restart KMail.

Thanks. I should have thought of that myself, but I hadn't internalized the extent to which one would have to resort to a really clumsy and unwieldy solution. I am still not accustomed to the rigidity with which some of the essential programs are designed, with little or no thought to what other people (i.e. people other than the designer) need. One can easily imagine what happens in an enterprise enterprise where there is an occasional need to refer to backed-up correspondence. Ah, for the flexibility of OS/2. I am still not accustomed to the rigidity -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Saturday 04 July 2009 10:58:22 am Stan Goodman wrote:

At 18:18:52 on Saturday Saturday 04 July 2009, "Rajko M." wrote:

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On Saturday 04 July 2009 07:41:26 am Stan Goodman wrote:

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I keep my Kmail correspondence archived in monthly folders in Kmail's Local Folders hierarchy. I would like to remove these from the hard disk altogether, onto a CDROM.

What I do not see, however, is how I would then be a ble to access them. If there is a way for me to point Kmail at them, or perhaps in some other way to make them available for reading, it has escaped me.

What can I do?

Hi Stan.

This is just to increase number of users that need such functionality accessible from Configure KMail.

Currently you may try workaround by creating empty backup/archive folder in KMail. When you need to see backup/archive mount CD/DVD there and restart KMail.

Thanks. I should have thought of that myself, but I hadn't internalized the extent to which one would have to resort to a really clumsy and unwieldy solution. I am still not accustomed to the rigidity with which some of the essential programs are designed, with little or no thought to what other people (i.e. people other than the designer) need. One can easily imagine what happens in an enterprise enterprise where there is an occasional need to refer to backed-up correspondence.

Ah, for the flexibility of OS/2.

I am still not accustomed to the rigidity

With the competing mail programs and mailbox/maildir formats, I find it very difficult to keep any "1" backup or archive of my mail that can be off-loaded and re-loaded into any one package easily. Thankfully, email is just "text" so I usually just end up backing up the mail files from whatever package (opera, kmail, thunderbird, etc..) and when I need to find anything from the past, just grepping through the files or using "formail" to dump the info I'm interested in. I guess if push-came-to-shove, you could always write (or find) a short script to parse the saved archives and output the content in the format needed by whatever current mailer you happened to be using. If you find a good solution beyond what Rajko suggested, please post it here as I am also interested. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Currently you may try workaround by creating empty backup/archive folder in KMail. When you need to see backup/archive mount CD/DVD there and restart KMail.

I have used that method, but not with KMail. The problem is that the MUA tries to write to the folder info like "message read", and obviously, fails. I had to resort to copy back the CD to the HD first. As Kmail writes indexes on the same directory, it should fail as well, but perhaps it handles the situation better than others. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpPzhIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xb3wCfb0cP7NpK4IRU8Gar5boTfXrR i1oAnjR9RuBQJL7niQu+QeEUkibHdeYV =Oumd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org