How to backup mails?
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How can I backup all my mails?
With Opera I used to make a tarball of ~/.opera and save that on an external drive. Using a USB-Stick this also made an easy transfer of all my mail (and the current settings, passwords and bookmarks) to my laptop (substituting the whole folder) when travelling and back afterwards. -
@ghpy Why only mail?
I back up my entire Veracrypt encrypted drive with email and all potentially sensitive data.
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@pesala Nice. But I didn't want to start a discussion on the forms of backups and their pros and cons. How can I back up my POP-mails in an easy way so as to have a backup and the possibility to hand it over to another PC?
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@ghpy back up: your emails are in your profile folder (help->about) in the Mail subfolder. Backing that up should get you half way. As far as I know at this point it is not possible to import mails from files, and I am not sure if just replacing the mail folder while the application is closed works with Vivaldi (like it did with Opera). I guess someone should try it and tell us how it works?
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@wildente said in How to backup mails?:
@ghpy I guess someone should try it and tell us how it works?
I had hoped that someone already knew. But the way things are going right now I will probably go back to M2 tomorrow anyway in order to have a working mail client.
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@ghpy understandable given the trouble you have to get it working in the first place. I also had setup problems when the client was released as experimental preview end of last year, when M2 import was not even an option
I have used Opera M2 and Vivaldi side by side since, and found myself not requiring to use Opera12 for anything other than IRC anymore after little time. So opera now mainly is a first line of defense backup
So if you are using Vivaldi anyway as your browser, I suggest you just keep having it download your email too and you'll see when it becomes convenient.
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