Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 16:05 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> Hello Andre:
> I have several hundred folders and subfolders in my InBox.  Just A to 
> D takes 
> more than 100.  Just sorting the e-mail from clients and vendors once 
> read is a 
> task.  Same for sorting the Sent messages folder.  I could remove 
> probably half 
> of these from current use of I could archive each folder separately.
> It is not a matter of fixed disk space.  I run 480 GB SSDs in each of 
> my PCs, 
> with roughly one-half of each SSD set for Ubuntu and the other half 
> for 
> Windows.  Have software installed so I can read and write across the 
> Windows 
> and Ubuntu partitions. 

[Please don't top-post on the list]

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. However
it's worth pointing out that Evolution is first and foremost an IMAP
client where the user keeps the bulk of his mail on a server. Issues of
local backup and archiving are not a priority.

poc