Bug 199887 - Feature request: Save ALL emails as .mbox files
Summary: Feature request: Save ALL emails as .mbox files
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2009-07-12 16:47 UTC by homoludens
Modified: 2012-08-19 00:11 UTC (History)
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Description homoludens 2009-07-12 16:47:21 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

(There are a lot of 'Wishlist' / feature requests re: Kmail / Kontact archiving / backup functionality, but my request was too concrete to fit anywhere ... )

It would be very convenient if the "Save as" > (save as .mbox) functionality were expanded so that one could save ALL emails (that is from ALL folders) as an .mbox file.

(Currently, one can only save all emails out of one single folder. If one has a large number of different folders -- like me -- saving each one becomes a tedious matter.)

I suggest two ways for saving these emails:
(1.) SIMPLE / PLAIN SAVE: ALL emails are saved into one big .mbox file.

(2). HIERARCHICAL (and preferable): emails are saved into separate .mbox files according to the folder they are in. The name of the .mbox file should ideally reflect the folder structure, for example:
     FRIENDS
          BOB
               email 1
               email 2
               etc.
          MARY
               email 1
               email 2
               etc.
     WORK
          BOSS
               email 1
               email 2
               etc.
          ELEVATOR GIRL
               email 1
               email 2
               etc.

would be saved into 4 separate .mbox files:
     1.   "FRIENDS - BOB.mbox"
     2.   "FRIENDS - MARY.mbox"
     3.   "WORK - BOSS.mbox"
     4.   "WORK - ELEVATOR GIRL.mbox"
Comment 1 homoludens 2009-07-12 16:49:09 UTC
Actually, it would be fantastic if the IMPORT feature could be adjusted so that hierarchical folders were created from the .mbox files (that is, importing all 4 .mbox files from the example above would recreate the original folder structure ... ).
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:22:59 UTC
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:11:24 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.