Hello On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:10 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > I don't have a response to Mr. Case, but a related question. > > I support Windows at work, but live in Linux. I perform almost all of > my Exchange tasks in Evolution. We require our staff to auto-archive > using Outlook. Auto-archiving consists of moving items older than a > certain date to a local .pst file. We have the archive.pst on a RAID Evolution cannot read pst file. You would have to use Thunderbird on windows to convert these to mbox.
> network drive. This is cheaper than the offsite backups of the Exchange > data. > > I have auto-archiving turned off because I don't know how to access the > data on the archive.pst using Evolution. > > Is this possible? > > > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:52 -0500, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I am looking for suggestions, tips or howtos. > > > > Periodically, once every six months or so, I go through my Evo Saved > > file. I either delete emails I no longer want to save, or move stuff to > > a sub-folder called MessageArchive. (Lots of good stuff from mailing > > lists in there). I then copy > > /home/bill/.evolution/mail/local/Saved.sbd/MessageArchive to a general > > archive directory where I store all kinds of files that I have archived. > > I finish by deleting every thing in Evo's MessageArchive. I am then > > good for another six-eight months > > > > My question is: Is there an easy way to read those archived messages if > > I want to look up something I have archived? A straight text read is > > difficult to sort out because of the header data and all -- that is what > > I have been doing whenever I wanted something up to now. Perhaps some > > awk scripts but that would be a learning curve! > > > > I have thought of running a second instance of Evo, but then how would I > > find the saved Message Archive file? Would I create a link? Copy the > > files back to /.evolution? Or is there a simple email program like mutt > > or others that would let me get a quick read of one of these old stored > > files? > > > > I have been playing around, but haven't yet settled on a strategy to > > dive into. Any suggestions or thoughts would be helpful. > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Desktop LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. Fedora is the best of what works today. Enterprise Linux is the best of what will work consistently for the next seven years. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
