[CLUE-Tech] Mozilla-mail backup?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Ummm I could be wrong about this but,  I believe Mozilla uses straight 
mbox format for mail.  Just save the files without extensions in your 
mail directory, and you could copy them back in later if you needed to 
migrate to a new system.  They're somewhere under 
~/.mozilla/profiles/default/<randomsomething>/mail or thereabouts.  
You'll see files like "Inbox" and you can cat them to see what they look 
like.  Now, I'm not sure if after you migrate, you Mozilla might get 
confused if you haven't actually CREATED the folders yet, and just 
copied those files in there,  but my guess is it will see any of the 
files with no extension as new folders.

Angelo

R. Savage wrote:

> We all know the merit of doing backups - saving files we can't afford 
> to lose. Though largely ephemeral, some email is like that. When I 
> tripped over the box the other day, it didn't do Mozilla-mail much 
> good, and it stopped working. It's up again, but it left me wondering: 
> is it possible to periodically save the to-ing and fro-ing of 
> Mozilla-mail? Obviously, Mozilla-mail maintains its own saved folders 
> of stuff - inbox, sent, drafts, etc, and it has the usual capability 
> to export the bookmark file. That doesn't do one much good if Moz-mail 
> itself goes toes-up.  I didn't find a menu item in Moz-mail that says 
> "save folder x to your choice of locations", nor did I find a 
> directory in /var or /lib marked "Mozilla-mail", nor anything in the 
> "Help" file.
>
> Any of the gurus (or at least non-newbies) out there figure out how to 
> do this?
>
> Dick Savage
> Franktown
>
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