Marco B. wrote:
> I'd like to know if there is a way to make a 'selective' backup in Kmail.
> Explanation: I have way too many e-mails in my kmail client. I'd like to
> backup the older ones, and keep only the most recent ones active in kmail.
> Concretely, my mails are divided in folders. Last year mails are in a
> folder called '2004', which contains some subfolders for In and Out. And
> the same for the previous years.
> I'd like to be able to archive, for example, 2004, 2003, and so on, and
> being able to put them back, in case I need to.
> If it is possible, what files should I backup and which not?
> My mailbox files are in 'maildir' format.
You can probably graft entire directories under ~/Mail and put them at a
separate location for backup. You can set up a cron job that does this
occasionally and possibly backs up the relevant files. Simply by
coincidence, I wrote about this method earlier this morning:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog
Roy
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