On 08/27/2015 06:13 PM, GlueFactoryBJJ wrote:
I agree. I have a Samsung Note *2* that I have been unable to upgrade
because I have (some VERY old) POP3 emails that I HAVE to have (work
and my hosting company which doesn't support IMAP and cannot switch
right now for various reasons) among 3 different POP3 accounts.
Frankly, it is BEYOND my ability to understand why K-9 Mail doesn't
have a backup option for both settings AND data (emails). This
feature has been asked for by users (on various forums) since at least
2009 and is an extraordinarily reasonable request! Surely, with 5-10
million users (per Google Play Store) K-9 Mail can make this a bit of
a priority.
This answers both the above email and your direct reply, since the
answers are very connected.
I use IMAP for all of my accounts; I dumped Earthlink maybe six years
ago because they didn't offer IMAP until this year. So, adding a new
device means just transferring the settings (via google drive for me),
then letting K9 download the messages in the folders I choose; K9
currently takes about 500MB of storage. I'd be terrified if my only
copy of precious email was on a portable (loseable, stealable,
breakable) device.
Are your emails stored locally, or on your POP servers? If they're
still on the servers, you can fire up a thick email client on a PC,
something like Thunderbird, and pull down copies. Thunderbird (at
least) stores its mail in easily-readable flat files instead of a database.
If your email is all on your device, I'd suggest that you make an IMAP
account on some provider (there have been lots of discussions here about
which; I just use gmail, but I know that's not acceptable for
everybody), and use the 'Forward' command to get (mangled, but readable)
copies off your device. There are some hackerish ways of clearing off
the forwarding crap, but that involves programming, or at least
familiarity with MH or similar software packages and some scripting.
Mailers used to support a feature like 'Forward', called 'Resend', which
didn't mangle the message being sent; I used that to get decades of my
old email off of my work computer (BSD Unix) up to gmail when I
converted from desktop storage.
Also, gmail will happily poll POP accounts for you; perhaps others will,
too. I still get some of my email through Earthlink that way.
As a last resort, if your device is rooted, you can copy off the
database files and use a desktop version of the database software to
read them. When I was using a rooted device, I used an Android-native
database browser to investigate K9's message storage. It wasn't simple,
but it wasn't completely opaque, either, and I'm not a database wonk.
But really, get the emails off your too-fragile device into an IMAP
server where you can manage them properly!
Good luck! If you feel like hacking Thunderbird email files, I'll
gladly chip in.
Dennis
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