[LBo] Archiving email messages

[jsl06 at myrealbox.com]

Dave,
     I use pine.  Pine allows you to export the email to a file.  According 
to the email I export it to a certain name.  I have written scripts that 
look for files and archives them.  Pine also allows you to append to a 
file.

                           James Laney
                       <jsl06 at ispwest.com>
                       <jsl06 at myrealbox.com>

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, 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.
>
> 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.
>
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