[MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

[Matthew Cawood]

Not off-topic at all - I began this thread with Devonthink. What's your 
workflow for getting MailMate messages into Devonthink?

On 24 Jan 2015, at 3:09, Emory L. wrote:

> Possibly off-topic alternative to MailSteward workflow below.
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015, at 09:56 AM, Gustavo Daniel Villarreal wrote:
>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> 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, this is similar to how I use MailSteward and not involve it
>> directly with my mail accounts. I have a Smart Mailbox that 
>> recollects
>> mails based on date conditions (older than 3 months, not 
>> flagged/unread,
>> etc) and then has a Rule that exports to a folder and then moves it 
>> to a
>> Deleted folder. Then MailSteward daily recollects this messages from 
>> the
>> folder, not from the mail accounts. This has been working very well 
>> for
>> me.
>
> My practice currently is to archive/index email with DEVONthink, but 
> the
> process of getting things into DEVONthink isn't always elegant. I
> haven't used MailSteward at all and I'm skittish of introducing Yet
> Another Database into the mix of things. All of my research and 
> projects
> materials are in DEVONthink already so it seems like the place 
> messages
> should live too.
>
> It also lets me correlate messages to other projects really easily and
> can be searched with Spotlight, which is pretty awesome.
>
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