Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Marco B. wrote:
>
>> I'd like to know if there is a way to make a 'selective' backup in Kmail.
>> Explanation: I have way too many e-mails in my kmail client. I'd like to
>> backup the older ones, and keep only the most recent ones active in
>> kmail. Concretely, my mails are divided in folders. Last year mails are
>> in a folder called '2004', which contains some subfolders for In and Out.
>> And the same for the previous years.
>> I'd like to be able to archive, for example, 2004, 2003, and so on, and
>> being able to put them back, in case I need to.
>> If it is possible, what files should I backup and which not?
>> My mailbox files are in 'maildir' format.
>
> You can probably graft entire directories under ~/Mail and put them at a
> separate location for backup. You can set up a cron job that does this
> occasionally and possibly backs up the relevant files. Simply by
> coincidence, I wrote about this method earlier this morning:
>
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog
>
> Roy
That is what I do. Although, I just manually move the email files to a
backup directory. Starting Kmail the next time clears the list and by
moving them back to the Kmail location, the emails are restored and
readable.
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