Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly
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On 03/02/07 02:29, Yuwen Dai wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
> Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup
> quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion?
"apt-cache search archive mail|sort" brings up, among other things:
archivemail - archive and compress your old email
archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl
> I once backuped the whole inbox on a CD-ROM, and set the "local directory"
> on the mount point of CD-ROM, failed. It seems the directories must be
> writable.
Yup.
> I also tried to create another `local folders' account, failed too.
> Thunderbird doesn't permit doing that.
Sure it does. I just tried it.
>
> Best regards,
> Dai Yuwen
>
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