Yuwen Dai wrote: >> >> >> "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 > > > > These utilities are OK. But I think the point is, it's difficult to > restore and read them back in thundbird. I just back up ~/.thunderbird You can always make it a tarball if space is an issue. Jonathan