From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:00:40 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1541 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 31 August 2007 Number 1541 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Saving Email : Alan Duval 2 Re: Saving Email : Ian Manners" 3 Re: Saving Email : Mike O'Connor 4 Re: Saving Email : Voytek Eymont" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:37:23 +1000 From: Alan Duval Subject: Saving Email Hi, My Email inbox has too many entries. I have deleted a lot but want to save quite a number for reference. How can I move these to my external hard drive and still be able to access them? If I copy Inbox to my external hard drive and then delete everything in the original Inbox folder, would copying Inbox back to the original Inbox folder restore the information? If so, is there any way to add future wanted Emails to the Inbox copy? Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:50:58 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Saving Email Hi Alan >My Email inbox has too many entries. I have deleted a lot but want to >save quite a number for reference. How can I move these to my external >hard drive and still be able to access them? If I copy Inbox to my >external hard drive and then delete everything in the original Inbox >folder, would copying Inbox back to the original Inbox folder restore >the information? If so, is there any way to add future wanted Emails to >the Inbox copy? On the assumption that you are using "Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617", also known as Mozilla v1.7, simply creat a new folder, copy everything you want to archive to the new folder, and copy that folder to your external HD/Storage. I archive things off by year, so I have folders called 2005, 2006, 2007 etc [using PMMail]. Copying the folder/file back to your mozilla mail directory will restore your email. ie, under OS/2 you will have two files, one that might be called 2006, the other file will be called 2006.msf. Older versions of Mozilla might create a subdirectory, not sure as its been so long. I use PMMail. The reason I say archive off your email to another folder is that it will save you from accidently deleting/overwriting what you didnt want to do during a restore. ie, restoring inbox, then going, oops, forgot to backup the current inbox :o) Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ Gross Ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:33:39 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Saving Email Ian Manners wrote: > Hi Alan > >> My Email inbox has too many entries. I have deleted a lot but want to >> save quite a number for reference. How can I move these to my external >> hard drive and still be able to access them? If I copy Inbox to my >> external hard drive and then delete everything in the original Inbox >> folder, would copying Inbox back to the original Inbox folder restore >> the information? If so, is there any way to add future wanted Emails to >> the Inbox copy? >> > > On the assumption that you are using "Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.7) > Gecko/20040617", also known as Mozilla v1.7, simply creat a new folder, copy > everything you want to archive to the new folder, and copy that folder to > your external HD/Storage. I archive things off by year, so I have folders > called 2005, 2006, 2007 etc [using PMMail]. > > Copying the folder/file back to your mozilla mail directory will > restore your email. ie, under OS/2 you will have two files, > one that might be called 2006, the other file will be called 2006.msf. > Older versions of Mozilla might create a subdirectory, not sure > as its been so long. I use PMMail. > > The reason I say archive off your email to another folder is > that it will save you from accidently deleting/overwriting what > you didnt want to do during a restore. ie, restoring inbox, then > going, oops, forgot to backup the current inbox :o) > > Cheers > Ian Manners > http://www.os2site dot com/ > Hi Ian, Alan, I have done this for years with Eudora >> Netscape >> Communicator >> OS2WEB|Mozilla >> Thunderbird. What I usually do is create a folder "XFER" in the Mail-tree, and whilst Mail is closed move all the necessary mail-database files into it with Drag'n'Drop, once I have prepared the additional source mail. The ".msf" files don't _need_ to be copied (they're the index/status files, and get recreated as soon as you access a folder that doesn't have one). Some of my main folders [a couple of screens-depth at 1024 vertical] have up to about 6 nested levels. And what I've waited for - it seemed forever - is now a reality with Thunderbird extensions in the form of about three different add-ons that find duplicate e-mails and thus allow you to merge mail repositories! I have dozens of "archived for safety" profiles across many systems and disks, so I can now finally rationalise all of these without having to manually delete messages - it's a pain when one has to introduce sub-folders with indexes of "A" ...... "Z" under the "Personal Mail" sub-folder of the Inbox as the mail folder tree when expanded ran to about 10 full depth screens at 1280x1024! In the old days when the crap got removed out of the database file per folder, by initiating a "compaction", it was a not infrequent occurrence to have the application lock-up and also lose mail - but Mozilla-family applications are much better now, and I can't remember the last time I lost mail, apart from October-November 2005, when I was indisposed, for years! HTH Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:19:44 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: Saving Email > > On the assumption that you are using "Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; > en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617", also known as Mozilla v1.7, simply creat a > new folder, copy everything you want to archive to the new folder, and > copy that folder to your external HD/Storage. I archive things off by > year, so I have folders called 2005, 2006, 2007 etc [using PMMail]. PRM does this automatically, month by month, for sent emails; and, of course, you can select'n'drag any emails to wherever -- Voytek ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------