[kdepim-users] Fwd: Re: Saving all my emails

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 19 August 2010, Art Alexion wrote:
> But is there an elegant way to *move* emails? Say, prior to a
> particular date? To archive them as opposed to just backing them up?

Well, it is possible to archive old messages, e.g. all messages which 
are older than 2 months, via the Expire functionality.

What many people want is to archive old messages depending on the year, 
i.e. they want to have an archive for 2009, another one for 2008, etc. 
This is not possible. OTOH, I don't really see the need for this. 
Sorting messages by year is only needed if one doesn't have a powerful 
search (which is the most important feature of any archive). 
Akonadi/Nepomuk will provide this (at some point in the future).

Also with Akonadi it would be quite easy to add support for an external 
archive storage which is not always available, e.g. you would search for 
a message in the archive and then KMail would tell you which of your 
archives (e.g. if you use CDs) you have to insert. But those are really 
dreams of what is possible in the future.


Regards,
Ingo


> > On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> >> [ Comments below, in line ]
> >> 
> >> On Wednesday 18 August 2010 at 7:46 am, DIL23 penned
> >> about "Re: [kdepim-users] Fwd: Re: Saving all my emails"
> >> 
> >> > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 10:49:49 Art Alexion wrote: At the
> >> > moment all I do is run a little zip script to zip everything
> >> > under .kde/share/apps/kmail/ once a month (I tend to keep a
> >> > pretty clean mailbox/folders!)
> >> 
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> What I do is backup [1] my Home directory nightly.
> > 
> > Yeah. Doing a proper backup is the only sane strategy for
> > preventing (too large) data loss. I use dirvish.
> > 
> >> I have two
> >> computers: desktop and laptop (for business travel). When it's
> >> time to unhitch the old wagon and take the laptop, I `rsync' [2]
> >> from my desktop to my laptop. Upon my return, I do the reverse.
> > 
> > Ditto, although I do not sync $HOME, but just a view selected
> > folders.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ingo

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