37124 - Read mail on non-writable/read-only medium/archive

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Database, enhancement)

Description

[yoel]

(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem.  It
was known there as bug #393246
http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=393246
Imported into Bugzilla on 04/25/00 13:11)

This is an enhancement request from a customer

We would like the ability to store archived mail to non-writable medium (ie 
cd-rom) and be able to point Netscape to the
appropriate location for this archived mail.

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Attachment: A test case containing a image and a center aligned table.

Comment 2

[yoel]

Assigning to component owner for proper triage of feature request

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

not going to happen.

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

Help Wanted.

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

The summary of this bug improperly conveys what is intended, I think.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

related is Bug 221714 - Mails invisible when .msf-file is read only

Comment 10

[csongor]

I apologise, when I created #2051917, I didn't find this one.

This one is very old bug and I feel the description is not detailed enough. As I miss this feature for a very long time, I want to put it into perspective.

My mailbox grows to ~1 GB every year. It is too much, so I archive them to DVD in a single ZIP file.

When I want to search in old emails, I do a painstaking process with juggling between the current and old mailboxes. I need to take extra steps to prevent new mails to be downloaded into the old profile, preventing my filters to take actions when I don't want to, etc.

In order to have access to my old mails, I would like to do this:

• mount many (>10) ZIP files from previous years into ThunderBird. (these files can be on DVD, NAS, whatever).
• search in all of the old archives at the same time
• when I shut down TB today and restart it tomorrow, I still want to keep the old mounts.

Meanwhile, my current profile should remain small, as it needs to contains only the newer emails since the last archive. That is, copying all the old mails into the current profile is not what I need.