You could tar them all up & encrypt the archive with gnupg or such, then send a copy to me. I'll shove it on a couple of my HDs (I have a TON of space left to blow). -Seth On 2/12/07, Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have about 27,000 emails spanning 3-4 years of my life. I spent a > couple hours Friday night pruning out span. I need to retain these for > reference and I'm getting nervous housing them solely on the server. If > I lost some of these I know I'd be sorry. > > Anyone have suggestions on how to archive email in a good way? I'd like > to retain the ability to sort and search. Could I create a thumbdrive > of archived email to have with me? > > Somethings I"ve considered: > > a)Forward all of them to gmail. Although I don't know if I trust those > guys to be discrete > > b) pull them all of the server to a local machine, build a local mbox > and ... profit... > > Just looking for good suggestions... > > Carl Lundstedt > UNL > > > ---- > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE > > > ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE