- Typically you do not have to archive your emails, because there is a backup system. Saving disk space (on the mail account) is also 'normally' not necessary.
- If you leave the institute and you loose your IMATH and also the UZH email address, it might me necessary to make a copy of your mails.
- Attention: copying emails is slow! Please be patient, check the log messages what's going on.
- There is no 'one solution fits all'.
Copy to a mail folder of a different email account (gmail, gmx , ..) - Via Thunderbird, Apple Mail, ...
- Quick and easy solution.
- Drawback:
- Not so stable if you have thousands of emails.
- If you have subfolders: there is no recursive duplicating - you have to do it for every single folder.
Step by step:
Setup any email client on your computer. F.e. 'Thunderbird' (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/) or Apple Mail. Configure your IMATH Account.
- Copy (duplicate!) all mails (mark all mails and choose 'copy') to
- a) a local email folder (this becomes your archive/backup, which is stored on your local computer), or
- b) a second configured (a free email service like gmail, gmx, ...) email account.
- In most applications, you have to copy/duplicate each folder separately (no recursive copy).
Thunderbird: use importexporttools-ng
Create a zip or mbox file(s) of your mails - thunderbird#Import_.2F_Export_Mails:_importexporttools-ng
Via imapsync
- Commandline tool - no GUI - compplicate to setup
- Has to be installed locally.
- Very flexible.
- Copies Mail recursively.