Re: [Evolution] Archive function?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:16, Greg Macek wrote:
> Agreed that the tools are indeed already there to do this myself. I may
> end up doing something similar to what you describe below. However,
> having a front-end to this would ease newer users to Evo or Linux for
> that matter. That's all I'm saying. :-)

I thought the concept of archiving was a unix-only thing anyway. I don't
know of any Windows clients that actually support it (well, I'm only
"familiar" with the more popular clients - I'm sure somewhere there is a
Windows mailer that does this but I don't think Outlook nor
Netscape/Mozilla offer this).

Jeff

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>
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:08, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 18:33, Greg Macek wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to implement an "Archive" function in Evolution?
> > > This could really come in handy for people who have years of email (like
> > > myself) stored, but rarely access. It would be convenient to have an
> > > interface to this, perhaps zipping up the folders you want archived and
> > > storing those files wherever you wanted. Then, if/when the time comes
> > > you need something, you can un-archive the file back into Evo. 
> >
> > - Create a new local account with a maildir or mbox store
> > - Move to this account the messages you want to archive
> > - Deactivate the account
> > - Store away the maildir or mailbox wherever you want. Burning a CD
> > comes to mind.
> >
> > Reading the archived mail is exactly as simple : create a new local
> > account and select your archive as the maildir or mbox store.
> >
> > As a bonus, your archive is readable by anything that can read standard
> > mailbox formats. For example, "mutt -f archive_file" will open it.
> >
> > The tools you already have can do more than you think.
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