Robin Laing wrote:
Could someone please tell me how to backup / copy all my e-mail
messages
to an external USB hard drive?
I'm running Evolution 2.8.3 on FC6.
No doubt it's probably really easy to do if I spent a bit of time doing
some research, I just don't have the luxury of time right now so would
some kind FC user please oblige?
The same problem for thunderbird!
For Thunderbird.
cp -r ~/.thunderbird/{user directory}/Mail /media/{usb drive}
This will copy all the directories, all the mail boxes and all the rest
of the information.
I have done this various times. I have even transfered mail between
Linux and Windows and back but with permission headaches.
A slow but simple way to way to copy mail around without worrying about
conversions is to set up an IMAP server (like dovecot) on a linux box
somewhere, then set up an account pointing to it on any imap-aware
client, select the messages you want to move or copy and drop them in
their new destination folder. This doesn't get them on an external
drive (without some extra contortions) but if you can arrange access to
the server it might be even more portable.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
