Re: [Evolution] Outlook Style Manual Archiving - Is there a way to do it?

[Graham Sivill <g sivill com>]

> On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 18:14 +0000, Graham Sivill wrote:
> > In Evo can you open a file like this or is it only possible to
> import
> > back from the external file?
>
> One could define a maildir [local] account at a path,  move messages
> in
> and out, and then zip [or otherwise archive] that path.  putting the
> messages back would be as simple a extracting that archive to the
> specified path.  Unline MBOX [single file] maildir will let you have
> a
> folder hierarchy.
>
> I'd point out that the Archive feature is built into Outlook in large
> part due to Outlook's very brittle Postoffice Box architecture. 
> Evolution will happily keep working with hundreds of thousands of
> messages in a folder; a situation in which Outlook dies hard.
Adam,

Thanks for your suggestion, this does seem to offer a way to do it,
whether I am clever enough to figure out how to do it is another thing.
I will have a go at this.

Siv