Re: Archiving emails to external media

Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 18:37:28 schrieb Pablo Sanchez:
> Suppose you have a USB thumbdrive you'd like your archived e-mail to
> reside upon.
> 
> First, shutdown KMail.  Next, find the folder(s) you'd like to
> archive - see my other e-mail.  Next `mv' these files to the USB
> thumbdrive.  Next, create symlink's to these files in your $HOME to
> the USB device.
> 
> You can now archive and the files end up on the USB device.
> 
> When you're done, shutdown KMail, remove the USB thumbdrive and here's
> where the experiement comes in, see what happens if you start KMail
> with the symlink's in place.  Does it complain because it can't find
> the files?  Does it continue?  
> 
> If KMail cannot continue, remove the symlink's and see if KMail
> re-creates the folders.  If KMail needs to have the folders, you could
> initiallyl create the folders, save them somewhere and always restore
> them manually when you're done archiving.


In case the solution with creating symlinks does not work, might creating copies 
of Kmail's mail folders on the USB drive and then syncing them via rsync with 
the original ones in your HOME directory be a solution? As you see I'm not an 
expert but this should do the job as well and there would be no reason for Kmail 
to complain about missing folders (if it even will do that anyway)

Hope this is not totally nonsense,

Pascal
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