On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:40, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Hello Daar! > > Looked through all options on the menu bar! > How can I archive mail from my inbox from say feb back. > My inbox has over 70,000 mails in it and evolution is useing a lot of > memory.So I figured I could free some up by archiving at least 50,000 of > these mails. but keep the last 20,000 which I often go back to for > advise, > > Any clues? <warn>YOU CAN REALLY MESS UP YOUR INBOX IF YOU DO THIS WRONG. </warn> evolution --force-shutdown // This is so that evo flushes to disk cd ~/evolution/local/Inbox/ // This is your inbox. Copy the `mbox` file to wherever you would like to back it up to. Please be careful. There is no nice GUI way to do it AFAIK. To take out a section of the mbox file you'll have to figure out a way to edit the file. Newest downloads should be concatenated to the bottom of the file. Cheers, Chris -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 15:02:30 up 5:25, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.43, 0.51 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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