Archiving Thunderbird email on CD/DVD using Fedora / RHEL

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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