Backing Up E-Mail Files

[Gavin Costello]

On 22-01-2008 22.42, Arnold Pietersen wrote:
> How would one go about to backup your e-mail files to another part of 
> the hard disk automatically by pressing some keys or at a certain time 
> of the day?
---end quoted text---

Take a look at the archivemail package.

$ aptitude show archivemail
Package: archivemail
State: not installed
Version: 0.7.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 156k
Depends: python, python-support (>= 0.2)
Description: archive and compress your old email
 Archivemail moves old mail out of a mailbox (in Maildir, MH, or mbox format, or
 via IMAP) and archives it in a compressed mbox-format mailbox file. It is well
 suited to be run from cron for automatic archiving of your old mail.

HTH,

Gavin.
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Gavin Costello
gavcos at gmail.com
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