Backing up Evolution e-mail messages

[Robin Laing]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> Michael A Peters wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:15 +1000, John Bradley wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Could someone please tell me how to backup / copy all my e-mail messages
>>> to an external USB hard drive?
>>>
>>> I'm running Evolution 2.8.3 on FC6.
>>>
>>> No doubt it's probably really easy to do if I spent a bit of time doing
>>> some research, I just don't have the luxury of time right now so would
>>> some kind FC user please oblige?
> 
> The same problem for thunderbird!
> 

For Thunderbird.

cp -r ~/.thunderbird/{user directory}/Mail /media/{usb drive}

This will copy all the directories, all the mail boxes and all the rest 
of the information.

I have done this various times.  I have even transfered mail between 
Linux and Windows and back but with permission headaches.


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Robin Laing