Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Samstag, den 01.08.2015, 06:30 -0600 schrieb James Lay:
> On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 06:15 -0600, James Lay wrote:
> > 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 
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> Yea disregard...can't move to inbox, but I can move to folders created
> in the inbox, so ya that works...thanks for the solution.

I am always a little afraid (although I am still working with an ancient
version of evolution) to create subfolders within special folders like
Inbox, Sent, Drafts or search folders. I would advise you to create
these needed folders separate from Inbox.



-- 
thomas