Hey Cameron, Thanks for that idea. The environment I have is windoz desktops/laptops/workstations all flavours. My servers are all running RedHat 5.2,6.2,7.x, and 8.0. Users have access to linux resources (home, etc) via samba. I also provide X access to these linux server via Xwin32/XDMCP. Everyone uses OE for mail 5.x and 6.x. Many users receive and handle lots of mail. Newer machines have no problem handling the inbox-bulk, not older ones.
I think for now, I'm going to stick with my original option I mentioned on my previous message. Another thing I did was, I followed someone's idea of 'dragging' the messages onto "media". Media being either to cdw if available, but also to anything else namely hard drive. The only challenge with this is that it only works for "Local folders", and not from Imap. When you drag the messages they are moved unto the target media as elm and they can just be double clicked and there they are. Of course, I have not tested the issue when messages have attachments. I'd doing this next. Again thanks for the input. Have a great day. Rafael. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Nikitiuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:47 AM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) How do you guys backup your outlook express email. > Is this in a Linux environment that you are doing this? Cause I have an > idea. > > Since you are more familiar with Outlook you could try the following. I > know out outlook has a function to import OE information as I have used it > myself a few times. As well, they have the auto archive feature which > essentially archive old messages. BUt regardless if you continue to use OE > or export them to another program make sure you use the OE maintenance tools > (Tools\Options\Maintenence Tab) to compact your OE database files and to > clean it out a bit. Will save you some space in the long run. > > No I don't know if it has all the functionality (like above) as outlook, by > everyone could use Evolution which is very Outlook like and will even import > outlook pst files. They could then set everything to auto archive (assuming > that feature exists) when ever they wanted. Those archives could then to > burt onto CD or whatever. > > Don't know if this helps? > > Cameron > -----Original Message----- > From: J. Rafael S�nchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: January 17, 2003 8:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) How do you guys backup your outlook express > email. > > > I guess you could do that too - except when you have a gig worth of mail. > :-) > > What I ended up doing was create an imap account that everyone can get too > because it is on a "home" account. Home accounts can be seen from anywhere, > including the cd burning server - it happens that not everyone has a cd > burner on their machines. Organize mail by folders with proper names. Then, > move all the mail to that imap account, and burn that mail onto cd. Label > the cd appropriately. > > When a message is needed, open the cd with the message, open home account, > move folder(s) as needed from cd to home, reset imap folders on imap account > via mail client, and 'show' the folder. Voila! there's the message(s) > including attachments. > > It seemed to work for me. Now, I'm on my way to write a procedure for > everyone so I save myself some time - I hope. > > I know that there might be a more efficient method for doing this. For now, > I'll stick with it. > > Thanks to all who gave your opinion on this matter. > > Rafael. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garth Meisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:02 PM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) How do you guys backup your outlook express email. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Me too but couldn't you just drag n drop to floppy too? > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > iD8DBQE+J2QnJ053raI+x/sRAiSsAJ9hUZ2gBppS5IDVJh7SpkshG+ybEgCfWjEz > > gRcC5sRKCBIsch6JVtkCNkU= > > =Lxhm > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
