[kdepim-users] backing up Kmail

Markus Feilner lists at feilner-it.net
Sat Apr 21 15:41:54 BST 2012


Am Samstag, 21. April 2012, 10:23:44 schrieb Reid:
> Hello group-
> 
> I'm a long-time ubuntu user but new to Kmail.
> 
> What's the best way to back up my mail?  A built-in utility would be
> nice :-> .  Failing that can you point me to the directory where the
> mail messages reside.  I pull email from multiple mail providers but
> hope it's not spread all over the directory structure :->
> 
> More specifically, this is Kubuntu 11.10, running Kmail 4.8.2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> RSV869

There are several ways. the best and obvious is in the Menu:
1) right-click on a folder and select "backup folder" (on my - german - system 
it says "Ordner archivieren". You can then select a compression format and a 
folder to save to. Later you can re-import these Mails. 

2) Second, you can save single mails (or several at a time) from the list. 

3) I am also starting to work with Monharc, (http://www.mhonarc.org/), which 
is converting mail stores to static HTML - which is exactly what I want for 
long-term-archive on DVD or Webservers. Seems a nice tool, but not (yet?) 
integrated with KDE or Kmail...

Have a nice weekend!


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