[plug] Archiving mail

[Steve Grasso]

Hi Richard,

Perhaps tar and gzip ~/Mail to the backup partition from a shell script 
kicked off through cron every month (or whatever). Pretty simplistic, but I'm 
not aware of any inbuilt archiving facility in KMail.

Regards,
Steve

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 14:13, Richard Barnes wrote:
> I have just done a clean install of Mandrake 8.1 and I'm using Kmail, which
> accesses the pop account on my Isp's server directly, and I was wondering
> where to start in configuring an automated periodic archiving of my mail to
> a separate backup partition (fat 32, but no OS on it). I have looked
> through the kmail help but can find no reference to archiving. I just need
> to know which how-to's or online sources to look at, or any tips anyone may
> have on this subject.