Archive of emails

Hi All,

Ingo wrote.

Hmm. Wouldn't it be easier to store the mail on a local IMAP server? 
Then you could access the mail from any of the 5 PCs. If you often need 
references to old emails then archiving those old emails on external 
media doesn't sound like a good idea because it will take several 
magnitudes longer to access those archived messages than it would take 
to access them if they are still stored on the PC (or the IMAP server).

FWIW, I keep all mail since I started to use mail in KMail. In my sent-
mail folder there's a message from 1998 (!). I am not noticing any 
slowdowns due to this.

As I have explained in earlier mail A very small enterprise like mine gets a 
lot of mail and sends out a lot of mail.
	I and millions of others like me do not work in any network  we simply have 
one desktop. Even someone who has 5 computers (presumably in a network) sees 
the need to archive emails to removeable media.
	I do not know what an Imap server is and because it would place my 
information in a place outside of my personal control I would prefer to stay 
away from such things.
	It seems that for me and several others who have joined this discussion that 
being able to archive  to  say (for example) a cd is a highly desireable 
feature. When I use the word Archive in this instance I do not mean I want to 
compress them etcetc I just want copies with all the attachments and all the 
origional information on a cd or dvd  and be able to plug that dvd into the 
drive and veiw the emails as I would those that are on the internal hard 
drive.

Ingo's point about the extra time it would take to access those externally 
stored emails is perhaps valid for some, but do remember these are emails 
that we will not look at so very often and when the need arises will check 
through our CD's looking for the ones we want.
Without this facility I have all those emails keeping my daily backup bigger 
than it needs to be and I am having to print out and file them in the old 
fashioned way to reduce what is on the hard drive.

I late last year bought a new computer and the task of getting all those 
emails moved onto the new one became a nightmare task.
	Had I had a cd containing all of them  the whole thing would have saved me 
hours of struggle because I would have archived the lot and would have simply 
copied some current stuff into my new Kmail folders on the new hard drive.

Please Please we need this archive facility.

I will tell you what is also a nightmare. Try transfering the todo and the 
calendar and the address book to a new PC.
	When I did the installation of the new Linux to my new PC I had learned a lot 
more about the programs and settings and at installation time made vastly 
different setting so I could not just load a backup copy straight in. It 
turned into a huge task wasting many days to get my system back in order.

Kontact does not have an  export facility for Kontact files although there is 
an Import facility for them.

Regards
Llewellyn

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