[OT?] Easy-to-use archiving mail in kontact?

[Torsten Irländer]

On Tuesday, 11. July 2006 15:26, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Juli 2006 14:56 schrieb Torsten Irländer:
> > On Monday, 10. July 2006 15:45, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> > > The problem: We want to give our users the possibility to archive
> > > their mails to a CD-ROM, so they can clean up their IMAP accounts
> > > from time to time, thus saving space on the server.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy option to do so in
> > > kontact - e.g. you cannot simply drag'n'drop a mailfolder into k3b
> > > to burn it on a CD-ROM. Hence, my question: Has anybody out there
> > > solved this problem and devised a method for users to easily get
> > > their mails archived on a CD
>>
> > I'm sorry but I also don't know an easy "one-click" solution for your
> > problem. But I appreciate very much an "export/import" function for
> > mails in the same way we know it for addresses or events. Maybe we
> > should discuss this here or on the devel list or simply open an issue
> > for this in the tracker.
>
> Exporting single folders as mbox is possible by selecting all messages
> in a folder and then saving them, i.e. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+S.

Thanks, that is nice to know :) I think with this approach even large folder 
structures can be archived with moderate effort. But beeing able to do this 
recursively for a whole folder tree would be even better. Maybe with the 
option to compress the archive or so. 

> Using archived folders from CD-ROM directly is not possible because
> KMail tries to open all mbox files and messages files (for maildir) in
> read-write mode. Obviously, this doesn't work for files stored on a
> CD-ROM. We'll make sure that this will be possible with Akonadi in
> KDE4.

Ok I understand.

-- 
Torsten Irländer                                    Intevation GmbH

torsten.irlaender at intevation.de
http://www.intevation.de/
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