Does anyone have a suggestion for archiving and retrieving messages under Kmail? Archiving in the obvious way is trivial; just save the Mail folder in one's home directory. But retrieving messages doesn't seem so easy. Assuming I saved Mail to a CD, the best I can think of is to mount the CD and somehow fake a folder containing its contents, then symlink from that folder to the CD. That seems neither clean nor straightforward. Does anyone have a better plan? Paul
Paul, On Saturday 08 January 2005 13:45, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion for archiving and retrieving messages under Kmail? Archiving in the obvious way is trivial; just save the Mail folder in one's home directory. But retrieving messages doesn't seem so easy. Assuming I saved Mail to a CD, the best I can think of is to mount the CD and somehow fake a folder containing its contents, then symlink from that folder to the CD. That seems neither clean nor straightforward. Does anyone have a better plan?
One thing that occurs to me is that you could devise an "autorun.sh" script to put on your archive CDs that would create the necessary symlinks in your home directory's Mail subdirectory when the CD is mounted. It's probably not an ideal solution, in that there is apparently no way to remove those symlinks when the archive CD is unmounted. I don't know what is the consequence of a dangling symlink in the ~/Mail directory, but you could experiment to see how KMail reacts. With luck, it would simply ignore any symlink that does not resolve.
Paul
Randall Schulz
On Saturday 08 January 2005 5:45 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion for archiving and retrieving messages under Kmail?
Hi, I usually move the mail folder (in mbox format) to a cd for storage. If I ever want to take a look at it...I just move the file again back to my $HOME/Mail directory. When I open Kmail it will complain about its index bla bla...but it's just that it doesn't have a pointer to that folder but that's ok. Once you close and open it again you have no problems. You could also use the import utility and then select the file (just tell Kmail what type of file it is: dbx , maildir, mbox...) etc. Also, I remember in the past having problems with the mail file (if it wasn't writeable).... I really don't know if it's going to work (from the cd by creating the symlink) ...I know that in previous versions I could'n t...I just needed to copy the file from cd to hd..then I had to enable the write bit (before opening Kmail). Jorge
On Saturday 08 January 2005 5:50 pm, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 5:45 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion for archiving and retrieving messages under Kmail?
Hi,
I usually move the mail folder (in mbox format) to a cd for storage. If I ever want to take a look at it...I just move the file again back to my $HOME/Mail directory.
That works, but it's awkward to do and even more awkward to undo afterwards. This seems to be a common problem with mail programs (including Microsoft's): no way to archive messages and later look at the archive outside of the existing folder structure. It would seem to be a very obvious enhancement and not difficult to implement. There's a request for something like this at bugs.kde.org; I've added my comments and my vote to that. Paul
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 5:50 pm, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 5:45 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion for archiving and retrieving messages under Kmail?
Hi,
I usually move the mail folder (in mbox format) to a cd for storage. If I ever want to take a look at it...I just move the file again back to my $HOME/Mail directory.
That works, but it's awkward to do and even more awkward to undo afterwards.
This seems to be a common problem with mail programs (including Microsoft's): no way to archive messages and later look at the archive outside of the existing folder structure. It would seem to be a very obvious enhancement and not difficult to implement. There's a request for something like this at bugs.kde.org; I've added my comments and my vote to that.
A few years ago, I used to use Lotus Notes. It would store a local copy of the mail in a database file, as well as leaving a copy on the server. Once a year, I'd save that file to CD. There was absolutely no problem in reading messages from the CD.
On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:33 am, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 6:58 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
There's a request for something like this at bugs.kde.org
What's the RFE number? I would like to take a look at it.
Look at 43271. Paul
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