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