Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 04 July 2009 10:58:22 am Stan Goodman wrote:
> At 18:18:52 on Saturday Saturday 04 July 2009, "Rajko M." 
> <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 July 2009 07:41:26 am Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > 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.

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