[MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:59, Harvey Leff wrote:

>> "How do you integrate MailSteward with MailMate?"
>
> In MailSteward's Settings, I specify two email accounts (one gmail 
> account; one exchange account) to be backed up, along with the backup 
> frequency (nightly at 10 pm). Additionally, I could specify other 
> mailboxes in
> /Users/myusername/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP.

And then you delete them manually in MailMate or is this only for backup 
purposes?

> Every night at 10 pm MailSteward opens, scans my email messages, and 
> adds the ones not already in MailSteward.

It's a bit risky to rely on how MailMate handles things internally, but 
I guess this is fairly harmless (for now) as long as MailSteward never 
deletes or changes anything.

I think it would be much better if MailMate triggered MailSteward 
itself, e.g., by making a copy of each archived message in a separate 
folder (in which MailSteward would then be allowed to delete imported 
messages). It would also be more efficient since MailSteward would then 
not need to scan already imported messages.

-- 
Benny