Re: [Evolution] Outlook PST Equivalent

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:39 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> On 5/31/05, Gavin Young <gavin young clendons co nz> wrote:
> > Previously I used to archive items older than 3 months into a PST that I
> > could backup. What is the equivalent in evolution?
>
> Create a new mail folder (let's say the name of the folder is 
> "backup"). Make a virtual folder that has a filter to have only mails
> older than 3 months (the name of the virtual folder is "old_mail").
> Then just move all the contents of the "old_mai"l to "backup". Expunge
> "old_mail". You should now have a all mails older than 3 months moved
> to "backup." You can then make a backup of copy of "backup" by simply
> copying the mbox file to any folder/media you want.

AFAIK, if "backup" is a vfolder there is no mbox. It would need to be a
real folder. And of course you'd need to have Evo configured to use
mboxes locally.

poc