[X4U] Archiving Mail

alexandre mac.k at a2k.ch
Sun Aug 7 11:21:01 PDT 2005


On 7 août 05, at 05:51, Rad Craig wrote:

> I use the Mail.app included in X.  I use it for an IMAP account for  
> my business.  I have 2-300 individual folders, very organized, for  
> vendor and customer relations as well as product development/ 
> research.  As you can imagine, this is a HUGE mail file, well over  
> 1GB.  I don't delete anything.  I keep everything sent or received.
>
> I do this so that I can go back to reference old emails from  
> customers or vendors if needed.
>
> Is there a way to archive some of these emails, say everything  
> older than 6 months?  The only requirement is that I want to be  
> able to search this archive if needed.  All of my IMAP mail is  
> stored on the server, but I'd like to keep the archive on my local  
> machine that the mail client runs on to conserve space on my web  
> server.
>
> Is there any way to do this?  If would be nice to save space and  
> improve performance, only accessing the old stuff when needed.  I  
> know I could do this with Outlook, but that was with a POP account,  
> I just saved the old archives

hi
i asked the same question a while ago and nobody answered! ;-)

i would like to save each message as an individual file (text or  
pdf). is it possible?

thanks

alexandre
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