off topic evolution

[Chadley Wilson]

Sounds reasonable I will give that a go.

Thanks

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 21:22, Kevin Old wrote:
> Hello Chadley,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:40, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > Hello Daar!
> > 
> > Looked through all options on the menu bar!
> > How can I archive mail from my inbox from say feb back.
> > My inbox has over 70,000 mails in it and evolution is useing a lot of
> > memory.So I figured I could free some up by archiving at least 50,000 of
> > these mails. but keep the last 20,000 which I often go back to for
> > advise,
> > 
> > Any clues?
> 
> Yes, this is very easy.  While in Evolution narrow down the messages
> you'd like to archive use the search tool.  Once found, select all of
> the message using Ctrl (as if you were going to move them to another
> folder).  The go to File->Save As.  The resulting file will be a mbox
> file of the messages you selected.
> 
> After the mbox file is saved, delete them from the current folder
> they're in by clicking on the trashcan icon at the top or by using the
> delete key.
> 
> Keep in mind that you'll only want to "archive" a few hundred messages
> at a time if you have large messages or 1000 at a time if they are
> small.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Kevin
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Old <kold at kold.homelinux.com>

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