[MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

Barton Lipman blipman at bu.edu
Fri Jan 23 09:39:35 EST 2015


I just back up once a week.  For me, this is just a backup, though when 
I first got Mail Steward, I used it to archive off some much older 
email.

Bart


On 23 Jan 2015, at 3:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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
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