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  <info>
    <desc>How to export mail data from <em>Evolution</em>.</desc>

    <link type="guide" xref="exporting-data" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.0.2" version="0.2" date="2011-07-30" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    

  </info>

<title>Exporting mail data</title>

<p>To save an email to a file in <link href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mbox">mbox</link> format, select an email and click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Save as mbox...</gui></guiseq> or right-click on the message and click <gui>Save as mbox...</gui>.</p>

<p>The same steps apply to save a complete mail folder, but you have to mark all messages in it first.</p>
<p>You can select all messages in a folder by clicking <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Select All</gui></guiseq> or pressing <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>A</key></keyseq>.</p>

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