Best Way to "archive" email

[Ingo Klöcker]

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Howard Coles wrote:
> I am using Kmail, and I have accumulated several thousand messages. 
> To Kmail's credit it hasn't shown any signs of wear.
> The question is how can I "archive" messages so that I don't have them
> in my active mailbox when I start Kmail but could access them if
> questions arose?

I created a new folder called "~Archive". (As the folders are sorted 
alphabetically the leading tilde '~' makes this folder the last folder 
in my folder list.) Then I created subfolders inside ~Archive for all 
the messages I wanted to get out of my active folders and moved the old 
messages to these subfolders.

If you don't want to keep the messages in KMail's realm then you can 
select the messages you want to archive and then simply save them. They 
will be saved in one file (in the so called mbox format). After saving 
the messages you can delete them. If you want to access them later you 
simply copy the "archive" file to ~/Mail, restart KMail and can now 
access the archived messages.

Regards,
Ingo

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