Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread James Stuckey
Thanks for all the replies guys. I asked dreamhost and they have a service for backing up e-mail. It took me a while to figure out where the mails actually were after I got it downloaded but they're all there. Now I can burn it to a cd! On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/9/6 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: >> >> The only access I have to this email account as of now is via >> >> http://webmail.dreamhost.com/src/login.php >> >> or at least that's what dreamhost tech-support told me. I have a >> half-dozen or so accounts hosted

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: The only access I have to this email account as of now is via http://webmail.dreamhost.com/src/login.php or at least that's what dreamhost tech-support told me. I have a half-dozen or so accounts hosted with them, and I'd like to somehow take all that m

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/9/6 James Stuckey : > Thanks for the reply! I understand what imapsync does, but I don't know how > to use it. Everyone has told me to use it, but no one has told me how. I > don't have another server to sync these to, so the tutorial someone linked > doesn't help me. I tried the man page but

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread James Stuckey
Thanks for the reply! I understand what imapsync does, but I don't know how to use it. Everyone has told me to use it, but no one has told me how. I don't have another server to sync these to, so the tutorial someone linked doesn't help me. I tried the man page but (in testing) it's not any help.

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-06 Thread Bhasker C V
If the tool you are looking for is to do a mirror of all the mails from IMAP erver to your local disk, then, toy can look at this http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/ This will create a copy of the complete mails in all your folders in the imap server to your disk so that you can later co

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Sep 04, 2010 at 18:34:28 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I >meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked >about backing it up to an IMAP server. Does anyone know how to back it up >

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-04 Thread godo
Okay, but how do I get the e-mail off the server? Look at preferences of your email client for "Keep messages for this account on this computer" (or something similar). In SeaMonkey it is under Mail Settings > your email acc. > Synchronization & Storage > Message Synchronizing. -- Bye, Goran

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/9/4 James Stuckey : > > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Paul Cartwright > wrote: >> >> On Sat September 4 2010, James Stuckey wrote: >> > Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I >> > meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got >> > talk

Re: Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-04 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat September 4 2010, James Stuckey wrote: > > Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I > > meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked > > about backing it up to an IMAP server

Backing up email to a CD

2010-09-04 Thread James Stuckey
Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I meant was that I wanted to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked about backing it up to an IMAP server. Does anyone know how to back it up to a CD?