Try this on the command line. $> tar -czf ~/email-backup.tar.gz ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox If you do this, you will _not_ be able to view any of the messages in this tar compressed file, but you have backed them up. You may want to create a new mail folder to store your old messages in yet clean up the bulk of your Inbox. You can do this in a script by creating a new dir (use the date to make it unique?) and copy in this file. You could use cron to run this script monthly/weekly/yearly as you please. [nesscg mars Kahl]$ cat folder-metadata.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <efolder><type>mail</type><description></description></efolder> I don't know if you need the above file or not, but it won't hurt. Now move the mbox file into this dir and you have a clean Inbox and are able to go back in your "archives" as you please. Good luck and BACK UP YOUR FILES before you try anything. I'd hate for you to lose something. Chris On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:44, Paolo Ariano wrote:
Il gio, 2003-10-16 alle 14:29, Lloyd D Budd ha scritto:Only way is to lossy compression, ie delete some of those emails :-preally lossy ;) i was thinking something like a script that makes a .tgz ;))
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