Re: Archiving emails to external media

Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 schrieb Pascal Bernhard:
> > 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?

I do this regularly (with an external disk via usb --SuSE 11.2) and it works 
just fine, Bernd