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Tool for automatic archiving of Evolution mails

Asked by Olivier Blanc

I am using evolution since a year now, and I have tons of email in separated directories on my local drive.
How can I archive emails older than a certain age in an identical structure ?
Is there an integrated tool to do that or should I use an external tool ?

Thanks for help

Olivier

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Don't know if it helps, but Evolution uses (a kind of) mbox, so in principle it would be enough to move the directory concerned to your backup media (with Folder -> Move folder to ....).

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Olivier Blanc (olivier-blanc) said : 		#2

Actually, I don't think it is enough. It's hard for someone that does not know of what "mbox" is to work on such solution. Also, when the structure contains more than 5 directories, its somewhat anoying to "Move Folder to" for each of them.
Also, after the move, the folder deseapear from your mboxes structure, so you have to recreate it.
What I was looking for is a tool that searches in each branch of the structure for messages older than a specified age and moves them to an identical structure on a backup media.

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Gerald M (geraldm) said : 		#3

you can search for files based on certain age using the "find -mtime" command and then tar those files.

i guess that's not a in depth explanation but "find" and "tar" are where i'd start.

note: i'm assuming Maildir/ structure, dont think this would be a valid approach with mbox

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