Archiving email

It’s that time again "“ Using WIN98 SE. I want to archive email files currently present on C drive to my external E drive that is connected through a USB 1.1 port . Last year I created the E:\archive file and moved files over. I have checked and they are present on E drive. Since then many things have changed, including switching from Netscape 7.1 to Thunderbird (1.0.6). Can I use the existing E:\Archive file as the destination for email files created using Tbird on C drive? If so how do I move them over? I remember creating an account in NS7.1 on C drive to do this. Can I do the same with Tbird and if so how? I plan on moving them more often than once per year.

Thanks for the help and a Happy New Year to all.

 

If you want to save your mail, you can copy the Mail folder, and paste it anywhere you want. I maykes sense to do that if you do it every day or so. I have been doing that, and deleted the .msf files. I found it useful when I had problems with Thunderbird. I renamed that the folder as XMail, and then copy/pasted the archived Mail folder. I, then deleted the XMail folder.

 

Thanks Westside. Ramona helped me through setting up the archiving system last year and it involved setting up an account on C drive that pointed to E drive as E:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\j0rxc71f.default.

I think that I then I dragged whatever folders I wanted to that account on C drive and sent them to E drive as above. That's what I'm trying to set up again on Tbird. At the moment I have folders for each month of 2005 under my account that I want to move over but am not sure how to set up the account on C drive to make that happen. I would probably move the emails on a monthly or quarterly basis. Currently there are about 200mb in a folder my inbox that I wish to move to E drive. Same goes for my Sent folder.

 

You don't need to set up an account to Archive mail, but you would if you want to keep it active. You can use Ramona's CD archiving .
To me anything over 10MB is too much, and you risk problems. I think that 200 MB will be ok, and you can rename the file, and save it that way. No more new mail will go into it. Remove the .msf file before you do it.
As long that you rename the monthly archived mail, you can do anything you want, and the CD-RW method is quite good.

 

Graham,

This is the thread from 2004, which you can follow again, for moving the TB Mail files:
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=30597