[LBo] Archiving email messages

[Brice Hunt]

Billy Pollifrone wrote:
> Howard Rosen wrote:
>   
>> Dave Lerner wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>
>>     
>
> If you need to go beyond that, then you can always tarball the
> Thunderbird folder as it is easily located (with Thunderbird closed of
> course) and reverse the process at a later time.
>
> I've found that putting the mail in the folders is plenty. I can always
> use the search feature to find that elusive mail that I got 4 months
> back if needed.
>
> Drive space is ridiculously inexpensive on desktop machines, so it's not
> like it has to be compressed.
>
>   
However, if you do want your folders compressed, you can do so by
changing the settings in "Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Offline & Disk
Space." 

If you just want your mail moved to an inconspicuous place after the
message is so many days old, you can make a Thunderbird folder just for
archived messages and then set a filter that will move messages that
have been read and/or are older than a  pre-set number of days to the
archive folder.

The "GMailUI" extension for Thunderbird allows you to configure
Thunderbird to implement user interface features from GMail, including
the GMail style archiving.  Although it is named after GMail, the
extension doesn't require you to use GMail.  All it does is allow you to
implement, within Thunderbird, interface features inspired by GMail.

Brice