On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:39 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > On 5/31/05, Gavin Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Previously I used to archive items older than 3 months into a PST that I > > could backup. What is the equivalent in evolution? > > Create a new mail folder (let's say the name of the folder is > "backup"). Make a virtual folder that has a filter to have only mails > older than 3 months (the name of the virtual folder is "old_mail"). > Then just move all the contents of the "old_mai"l to "backup". Expunge > "old_mail". You should now have a all mails older than 3 months moved > to "backup." You can then make a backup of copy of "backup" by simply > copying the mbox file to any folder/media you want.
AFAIK, if "backup" is a vfolder there is no mbox. It would need to be a real folder. And of course you'd need to have Evo configured to use mboxes locally. poc _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
