On Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:51:26 BST Wols Lists wrote: > So if Dovecot is serving IMAP4 to your workstation, the emails should be > in dovecot, and cached on your workstation. For my setup, they're stored > in dovecot, and cached in thunderbird ...
Almost. KMail has a 'Download messages for offline use' option, which I've had set until now. > > My backup method is simple: I archive KMail's emails daily to a local > > disk, > > then shut the system down on a Sunday to back up the entire system to an > > external USB-3 disk. > > If kmail is caching them, chances are they're stashed away in the .kmail > directory or wherever, in some standard format, and you can just back > that up. Yes, I'm doing that. It now takes longer to make the backup because the emails have to be fetched from the server. > > The server is taken down on a Saturday for complete system backup, to > > another USB-3 disk. > > Perfect, they're now backed up all over the place :-) Quite so. :-) -- Regards, Peter.
