[CUBE] Off Topic - need Mail help

[Ixbalam]

On Monday, Jan 19, 2004, at 16:23 America/New_York, Ann Billups wrote:

> I have an off-topic question and was wondering if someone here could 
> direct me to the source of information to answer it.
>
> In my old (OS 9) email program (Claris Emailer), there was a way to 
> archive your email so you could then delete some email, but still have 
> an archive stored. I haven't found a way to do that in the new Apple 
> Mail program. The only information listed in Mail help is how to back 
> up(which is basically what I want to do), but this involved copying 
> several folders and files from different places in both the 
> Home/Library/ and the Users folders. I am not an AppleScriptor, but 
> this seems to be a perfect use for an AppleScript to perform all of 
> these duties at once and save it to a backup folder.
>
> Can anyone direct me to where I might find the answer to my need or 
> help with making the script?

I'm not much of an Applescripter.  For daily backups I have this as an 
alias in my shell rc file.  It uses the Stuffit 7 command line tool.  
This archives the whole mail folder and saves the compressed file to 
~/Bak.  You could do something similar with tar or gnutar and gzip or 
bzip2.  You could run a shell script daily using cron too or, I'm sure, 
use an Applescript to do the same.

stuff -f sitx -m 4 -r 64 -n ~/Bak/Mail.`date +%Y.%m.%d`.sitx 
~/Library/Mail

This should do essentially the same thing with just tar, no compression.

tar -cf ~/Bak/Mail.`date +%Y.%m.%d`.tar

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