Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data

[James Lay <jlay slave-tothe-box net>]

On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 18:32 -0600, James Lay wrote:
>     On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 23:30 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 14:23 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 23:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > I guess you could create a Search folder matching the messages you 
> > > > want to archive then save them all in an mbox file and delete them.
> > > 
> > > This would pretty much be my recommendation - create an additional
> > > local account [MBOX or Maildir - PAYING ATTENTION TO WHERE YOU CREATE
> > > IT] and move the stuff you want to archive to that account.  Then you
> > > can go into Evolution and mark the account as inactive ...  until 
> > > such
> > > time as you need to access it again, then just toggle it back on. 
> > >  For
> > > backup of the archive you just make a copy of the account content 
> > > [from
> > > where you created it].
> >
> > Yes, that would be slightly more elegant than my proposal. Obviously
> > the dummy account should never check for new email or be selected as
> > the default sending address. In fact the sending and receiving servers
> > should probably be set to dummy addresses.
> >
> > poc
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>     
>     Thanks all...this has been really helpful and educational.
>     
>     James

I tried this method of creating a local Maildir account....the account created just fine, but I was unable to copy or move any itemd into the Inbox.

James