I'd like to be able to take my mail files and archive them. Easy enough -- just copy them elsewhere. But the interesting question is how to access them later on. I don't just want to bring them back under the same folder names, since then they'll overwrite my newer mail. Instead I want to bring them back under a different name -- say a folder named Archive that has all the other old folders as subfolders. It appears that the best way to do that would probably be to discard all the index files when I create the archive. That led me to examine the contents of one of my email files. It seems to have all the messages concatenated with a couple of blank lines between. But it's not clear how Kmail (or any other mail program) can parse that unambiguously, since an email message might contain as part of its text the precise header of some other email message. Anyone have ideas on how (a) Kmail parses a mail file when it doesn't have an index, or (b) what a good archive restoration strategy would be? Paul Abrahams