Re: Archive of emails

On Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 16:08:31 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2010-08-24, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 12:03:28 Art Alexion wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010 02:48:58 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > If you want to archive, merely as an archive, to be rarely or never
> > > > accessed,  then the mail can simply be copied to the CD - but that's
> > > > much easier if the folders are in maildir format.
> > > 
> > > I'm no expert on this, but aren't maildir file names incompatible with
> > > the ISO format of CDs? If I recall all of this correctly, you would
> > > have to compress/tar the files before writing to CD.  Not a good
> > > solution if you need to search or otherwise occasionally access them.
> > 
> > No - why would they be?  Just to test, I chose a directory, burned it to
> > a CD using K3b, verified the burn, then opened the disk in the file
> > manager.
> 
> You most likely have the Rock Ridge extension enabled which allows for Unix
> filenames to be stored.
> 
> Maildir filenames can contains characters which are not valid for e.g.
> Windows filenames (i.e. maildir filenames can contain colons, which is the
> drive/path separator on Windows).
> 
That sounds likely.  Since I use Windows only for two applications that cannot 
be used in Linux, I do tend to ignore the needs for that OS.

Anne
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