[LBo] Archiving email messages

[Howard Rosen]

Dave Lerner wrote:

> I have a lot of email messages (a few hundred MB) I've saved over the 
> years.  Most of them I rarely need to look at, but occasionally I need 
> to refer to an old message I sent or received.
>
> I mostly despise MS Outlook, which I have to use at work, but one 
> useful feature is its ability to set up an archive for storing old 
> email messages, easily opening the archive when desired, and accessing 
> the archived messages within Outlook.  Messages within the archive can 
> be read, searched, replied-to and forwarded, just like non-archived 
> messages.
>
> I've been using Thunderbird for email on MEPIS.  Thunderbird doesn't 
> appear to have any sort of archive feature, unless there's an 
> extension I haven't found.

Create folders within Thunderbird to save email.  Within  Folders  you 
create  individual folders where mail can be moved to instead of simply 
deleting it.

Howard

>
> I found some tools at 
> <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Archiving_your_e-mail>, but none of them 
> really match my objective.
>
> Do any other linux email clients have a useful archive capability?  I 
> don't insist on GUI clients; a command-line tool or method would be 
> fine if it does what I want.
>
> If there's another way of accomplishing this goal, I'm open to 
> suggestions.
>