[MlMt] Local email archiving status/options?

[Michael Tsai]

On Aug 25, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Brian Scholl <bjscholl at gmail.com> wrote:

> it sounds to me like my best bet for creating a long-term-storage archive might just be to export .eml files directly from MM (via the EF bundle, via dragging-to-the-finder, or by stealing them from MM's private ~/Library/ directory) and then have EagleFiler translate/collate them into an .mbox archive for long term storage.  As long as that will work for folders of ~ 1000 messages at a time (and will preserve the dates, etc.), that sounds fine.

It should.

> > However, you can merge them into mbox files for greater efficiency 
> > if you want:
> > <http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/merge-mailboxes-message>
> 
> Do you have any thoughts about whether this would work for bulk archiving -- e.g. if I wanted to take the entire contents of a ~ 1000-message IMAP folder, send them all in one step to EagleFiler from MM, and then convert the results (and only those results) into a single .mbox file?

Yes, that will work.

> (And does this option successfully preserve all of the dates, unlike the simple version of Bill Cole's formail shell command?)

EagleFiler will set the dates in the "From " lines based on the Date headers of the messages.

--Michael

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Michael Tsai
C-Command Software