[LBo] Archiving email messages

[Stefan Waidele]

Dave Lerner schrieb:
> 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 don't really understand what that MSOE-Archiving does.

While other's replied about "Folders" I assume that this is not what you 
want, right?

What is it exactly that MS does when "archiving"?


What I do: I store all my mail on an IMAP-Server. In contrast to POP, 
IMAP stores mail on the server, thus changing/updating/reinstalling the 
mailclient will not have any effect on the old messages.
IMAP also has the advantage that I can read mail from many different 
PCs, and mail I have read on one PC will be marked "read" on all other 
PCs, too.

But as I said: I don't really understand what you want from the 
"archiving" functionality. If you are more specific, we might come up 
with something,

Stefan

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