[MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:08, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:29, Matthew Cawood wrote:
>
>> My preference is to archive in DevonThink, which holds my email 
>> archives from the mid 2000s. But it seems that MailMate and 
>> Devonthink don't hook up,
>
> I plan to add that too and I did start creating it. If I remember 
> correctly I delayed it, because DevonThink needs the original email 
> instead of the summary-oriented style used for the various GTD 
> bundles. (I'll check up on the state of this bundle.)

Within a few hours you should see a “DEVONThink Pro” bundle in the 
Bundles preferences pane (MailMate checks for bundle updates every few 
hours). If you enable that then you should have a command for adding an 
email to DEVONThink. It uses the subject of the email for the file name 
and it also adds a URL to the record in order to easily go back to the 
email from DEVONThink (⌃⌘O). It does not allow configuring where to 
store it in DEVONThink though -- didn't quite figure out how that is 
done.

Note that this command can also be used in rules to automatically 
archive an email and perhaps delete it from MailMate. This can even 
happen automatically when an email reaches a certain age.

-- 
Benny