Lotus Notes does archives too. As long as you dont mind spending 90 seconds to start your mail client and having it occupy 96 megs of RAM. Itz a very heavy client.
[JPK] On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:46:05PM -0400, Gil Hauer wrote: > Outlook does indeed allow the user to archive old email based on cut-off > dates. I believe that one can append to the archive file as well (that > is, archive things once each month to the archive file). > > To echo the request, this is something that I'm really missing in Evo. > I've been toying with scripting something but the threshold of pain > isn't quite there yet :) > > Gil > > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:37, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:16, Greg Macek wrote: > > > Agreed that the tools are indeed already there to do this myself. I may > > > end up doing something similar to what you describe below. However, > > > having a front-end to this would ease newer users to Evo or Linux for > > > that matter. That's all I'm saying. :-) > > > > I thought the concept of archiving was a unix-only thing anyway. I don't > > know of any Windows clients that actually support it (well, I'm only > > "familiar" with the more popular clients - I'm sure somewhere there is a > > Windows mailer that does this but I don't think Outlook nor > > Netscape/Mozilla offer this). > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:08, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 18:33, Greg Macek wrote: > > > > > Are there any plans to implement an "Archive" function in Evolution? > > > > > This could really come in handy for people who have years of email (like > > > > > myself) stored, but rarely access. It would be convenient to have an > > > > > interface to this, perhaps zipping up the folders you want archived and > > > > > storing those files wherever you wanted. Then, if/when the time comes > > > > > you need something, you can un-archive the file back into Evo. > > > > > > > > - Create a new local account with a maildir or mbox store > > > > - Move to this account the messages you want to archive > > > > - Deactivate the account > > > > - Store away the maildir or mailbox wherever you want. Burning a CD > > > > comes to mind. > > > > > > > > Reading the archived mail is exactly as simple : create a new local > > > > account and select your archive as the maildir or mbox store. > > > > > > > > As a bonus, your archive is readable by anything that can read standard > > > > mailbox formats. For example, "mutt -f archive_file" will open it. > > > > > > > > The tools you already have can do more than you think. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Greg Macek | Senior IT Manager > > > Marketing Resources, Inc. > > > 630.530.0100 > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.mrichi.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > -- > > Jeffrey Stedfast > > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- GnuPG: ECBA EA08 C3C1 251E 5FB5 D196 F8C8 F8B7 AB60 234D
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