Does anyone know how to move the Kmail mail folders to a network drive so they can be backed up but still be able to access the folders localy? Thanks, Jon
If you have non-stop access to the server (perhaps because it's on the local area network), then just put an imapd like cyrus on the server. Works like a charm, because kmail is an excellent IMAP client. And this has the advantage, that you can access your mails from changing workstations if you want to, from Outlook running on Windows, if you are masochistic, or even over web interface like imp from horde (www.horde.org). Greets, Daniel Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 16:24 schrieb Jon Schwartz:
Does anyone know how to move the Kmail mail folders to a network drive so they can be backed up but still be able to access the folders localy?
Thanks, Jon
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:24, Jon Schwartz wrote:
Does anyone know how to move the Kmail mail folders to a network drive so they can be backed up but still be able to access the folders localy?
Thanks, Jon
Using NFS on the Server export the /home partition. On your client workstation mount -t nfs <server IP>:/home /mnt/server/home 1) Copy the ~/Mail directory to the home dir of the mount cp ~/Mail to /mnt/server/home/<user> 2) Backup your ~/Mail dir mv ~/Mail ~/mail.bak 3) Create a link from the mounted mail dir to your directory ln -s /mnt/server/<user>/Mail ~/ The above is a bit brief - if you want more details please ask. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
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