[MlMt] Local email archiving status/options?

[David O'Donnell]

On 25 Aug 2015, at 7:03, Brian Scholl wrote:

> Also, a more theoretical postscript: It seems to me that Benny's 
> reluctance to pursue any sort of .mbox export […]

I can’t speak to the IMAP-*v*-POP3 debate, but I would really love the 
ability to export a series of messages as a .mbox file in the same 
format that Apple Mail does.

In addition to using SpamSieve on my Mac (which is quite good), I 
maintain my own mail server (Mac OS X 10.6.8, until I am forced to 
“upgrade”) and use SpamAssassin there to try to intercept as much 
crud as possible *before* it gets to SpamSieve. Apple Mail produces the 
perfect .mbox files for feeding to SpamAssassin’s spam-learning 
routines, so periodically I have to haul Mail out, select all the junk 
that SpamAssassin needs to learn how to intercept, and File > Save As… 
(raw source) to a file that I can then drag to the server and run 
learnspam against.

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