I don't have a response to Mr. Case, but a related question. I support Windows at work, but live in Linux. I perform almost all of my Exchange tasks in Evolution. We require our staff to auto-archive using Outlook. Auto-archiving consists of moving items older than a certain date to a local .pst file. We have the archive.pst on a RAID network drive. This is cheaper than the offsite backups of the Exchange data. I have auto-archiving turned off because I don't know how to access the data on the archive.pst using Evolution. Is this possible? On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:52 -0500, William Case wrote:
Hi; I am looking for suggestions, tips or howtos. Periodically, once every six months or so, I go through my Evo Saved file. I either delete emails I no longer want to save, or move stuff to a sub-folder called MessageArchive. (Lots of good stuff from mailing lists in there). I then copy /home/bill/.evolution/mail/local/Saved.sbd/MessageArchive to a general archive directory where I store all kinds of files that I have archived. I finish by deleting every thing in Evo's MessageArchive. I am then good for another six-eight months My question is: Is there an easy way to read those archived messages if I want to look up something I have archived? A straight text read is difficult to sort out because of the header data and all -- that is what I have been doing whenever I wanted something up to now. Perhaps some awk scripts but that would be a learning curve! I have thought of running a second instance of Evo, but then how would I find the saved Message Archive file? Would I create a link? Copy the files back to /.evolution? Or is there a simple email program like mutt or others that would let me get a quick read of one of these old stored files? I have been playing around, but haven't yet settled on a strategy to dive into. Any suggestions or thoughts would be helpful.
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