[kwlug disc.] archiving email

[Oksana Goertzen]

My understanding is that if you have deleted email in Thunderbird it doesn't
actually delete the message - it just doesn't show up in the view.  I think
you need to compress the folder to get it to reorganize the database, so you
may want to do that before you archive anything.  [I would make a backup
first, but that's me - cautious - or is that paranoid...  :)  ]

I use the extension mboximport to maintain backups as I find that sometimes
the mail file can get corrupted.
https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

Oksana

On 3/27/07, Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke at insurancesquared.com> wrote:
>
> I've got every business email I've ever sent or recieved since about
> 1998 in thunderbird on linux.  While my current method of files/subfiles
> is working well, I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better served by
> starting fresh, or cleaning this up somehow.
>
> What are folks doing in terms of archiving emails or getting them off
> their desktop systems?  Or should I stick to what I'm doing and hope
> that email becomes outdated before my system gets too big :).
>
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