archiving emails

Hi all,
		I have to thank Anne Wilson for input and suggestions
However her ideas do not remove the very basic reasons for me wanting to have 
Kmail have an archive facility built into it.

1) I do not want to run any extra kind of computer. If it was the place where 
all my mails were kept I would still have to back it up . My point about 
backing up all those mails of yester year  over and over remains valid. A 
removeable media back up ( I could have 2 copies) on file stops doing the 
same thing over and over.

2) A network ? I am a one person enterprise and  a network can actually not 
improve My productivity. My one PC running Suse Linux gives me huge 
productivity benefits without complexity or the need for an IT guru.

3)  Removeable media like cd or dvd is prefered because  a second copy cheaply 
and conveniently  assures the security and safety of my data. I would thus 
rather use these than use a removeable type hard drive.

4) As to copying mails to CD directly . That cannot at the moment be done from 
inside KMail or Kontact. As I soon discovered the mails hide in a directory 
with funny file numbers. 
		WORSE STILL
When I wanted to transfer all my mails to my new PC, I used K3B and copied 
them to CD and then tried copying the contents of that Cd back into the 
directory with the same name and path on my new system.
	WELL GUES WHAT 
having copied them into the directory I opened Kmail and Joy of Joys there 
they all were in the kmail display  BUT that joy was very very short lived.
Click on one hoping to veiw it and it disappears from the directory and cannot 
be opened. I had a long battle with this one and wont go into more long 
winded story here. 
		Because Kmail does not have an export facility for its own files and Kmail 
does not facilitate copy of emails to anywhere outside Kmail itself. 
Transfering mail files is and will remain a nightmare untill Kmail has 
an "Archive to <path>" or copy to <path> facility.
	I ended up with all that mail converted to MBOX files, lost all 
the  "Signature validity information " in the process.

I want to archive Kmail files just as they are fully compatible with Kmail as 
I use it and be able to put that archive in a drive and have Kmail show its 
content to me . Please someone help do this thing. Surely it can be provided 
as an add on to Kmail.

Regards
Llewellyn



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