Re: [Evolution] Evolution backups with gmail

[Kris Luyten <kris luyten gmail com>]

On 4/13/05, Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:09 +0200, Kris Luyten wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've used Evolution for several years now, and my local inbox is
> > getting pretty full, so I was looking for good way to backup my
> > emails.
>
> That's what folders and filters are for.  I've got upwards of
> 50000 emails, but my Inbox only has 31 emails in it.

The same here: I meant just all the mails stored on my disk...
> >        I was wondering whether there is a way to backup emails
> > already in evolution in my gmail account (e.g. by redirecting all
> > mails in a folder to my gmail account). I would also like to
> > "redirect" certain incoming mails directly to my gmail account with a
> > filter, but this doesn't seem possible? Is there a way to do these two
> > things?
>
> Before you do that, move the emails to local folders.  Then, you
> can decide that you might just decide to make date-based sub-folders
> and, to archive, burn the mbox files to CD.

I don't want to backup them on a CD, but use gmail as a backup mechanism.

Regards,
Kris