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<p dir="auto">Hi Philip</p>
<p dir="auto">On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I still have all my email messages since 2002 but keep only a relevant (and therefore <em>very small</em> and <em>constantly fresh</em>) subset in my email app of choice (currently MailMate) and all the rest in archives (external to the email app and servers and searchable via Finder and/or an email archive app).</p>
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<p dir="auto">My archives go back to the mid-nineties. Since mail (generally) compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I decided a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything than to regularly evaluate what's relevant. When laptop disks were still expensive and connectivity less ubiquitous, I used a selective imapsync to only download my most active mailboxes. It was error-prone and painful to maintain.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Just interested, with mail base so large, have you ever considered/evaluated something like <a href="http://www.mailsteward.com/">MailSteward</a> or similar?</p>
<p dir="auto">Cheers</p>
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