Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data

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

On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 21:11 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2015, 06:07 -0600 schrieb James Lay:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Topic kinda says it...I'd like to try and archive my data, but not do
> > a full backup.  Right now I'm focused on emails and sent items.  My
> > hope is to archive off say....all emails and sent items of 2013 into a
> > file or directory, and then be easily easy to open (not import) an
> > email if I'd like to reference it.  Is there anything like that
> > available, or a method to do that with Evolution?  Thank you.
> > 
> > James 
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> Check this out. Have not tried it myself, though:
> http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
>
> You might first use a search folder / filter to distribute mails to a
> special maildir and/or mbox account. 
> Also, keep in mind that evolution uses sqlite databases (named
> folders.db, I think) to keep basic information about mails. So, you
> might consider saving these database files as well if you need to
> quickly do a search for specific mails at a later time!
>
> Also, you might look at:
> http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/e-mail-archiving
> or do a google search for "mail archive linux"
>
> Hope this helps,

Thanks Thomas...that is helpful.

James