Archiving Thunderbird email on CD/DVD using Fedora / RHEL

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/18/2010 08:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:35 -0700, Richard England wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone ever successfully archived all or a portion on their email
>> onto a CD or DVD in such a manner that they can mount the media later
>> and successfully read from it using Thunderbird?   TBird seems to want
>> write capability on the media.   Any tricks for getting around this??
>>     
> The write requirement arises because TBird wants to update state
> information and indices.
>
> If you're feeling adventurous, you could possibly do this using union
> mounts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS). However AFAIK this is
> still not supported in the stable kernel tree.
>
> Alternatively, there might be a way to play tricks with symbolic links
> in order to achieve the same effect. Left as an exercise for the
> reader :-)
>
> poc
>
>   
One could always use DVD-RAM.  :-)

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