[MlMt] mail archiving

[aisrael]

Thank you for all your suggestions. Indeed Eaglefiler seems to be a 
worthwhile solution (there is a Mailmate bundle called Eaglefiler, that 
facilitates export/import, although the new “Copy to mbox”  bundle 
is probably the most convenient (I prefer to export as mbox rather than 
.eml because I have hundreds of “real” mailboxes)). I will also test 
Devonthink, although I am not sure it can import a hierarchy of 
mailboxes.

In the meantime, following another suggestion, I re-downloaded 
Thunderbird (that would have been my favorite mail client if Mailmate 
did not exist) : Thunderbird has the advantage to allow local storage, 
and using the Add-On called “ImportExportTools NG”, I could import 
the mbox files generated by Mailmate, while keeping all the advantages 
of an email client. This is similar to what Eaglefiler can do (at least 
regarding emails), and is cheaper.

Alain

PS : the advantage of Horcrux or Mailsteward (that I have tested) is the 
possibility to program the automatic import of specific mailboxes at 
given intervals, but I found the ergonomy of these 2 programs rather 
diappointing.



On 20 Mar 2023, at 22:20, Andrew Luk via mailmate wrote:

> Another option for you, if you are using DEVONthink, you can add your 
> email to that under Command > Devonthin > add
>
> I am sure that there would be some sort of keyboard shortcuts or can 
> be added via Keyboard Maestro, etc
>
> On 20 Mar 2023, at 22:47, aisrael wrote:
>
>> My institution politely asked me to reduce by half the amount of 
>> space my emails occupy on their server (currently 36 Go : given my 
>> position in this institution, I had to keep ~20 years of emails; I am 
>> now semi-retired and should be able to “delete” some of them). 
>> Therefore I decided to archive old emails. I found a lot of relevant 
>> suggestions in this forum, and decided to test Eaglefiler, Horcrux 
>> and Mailsteward, but I was not thrilled by any of them, for different 
>> reasons. Then I thought the simplest solution was to export 
>> individual mailboxes under the mbox format. This works well (I am 
>> using Mailmate 5937). Then I am left with  : how to easily read, 
>> search, …. these mbox files? Eaglefiler does it (Horcrux and 
>> Mailsteward don’t, they work by directly accessing the IMAP 
>> server), but is apparently unable to perform incremential backups.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to do that?
>>
>> I had a final question regarding the Archive mailbox in Mailmate : 
>> how does it work (I could not find the info in the Mailmate manual, 
>> which is unfortunately not searchable; nor did I understand how this 
>> mailbox became populated by a seemingly random set of emails), is it 
>> a local storage,  …? Can the exported mbox files, once deleted on 
>> the server, be re-imported in Mailmate and stored locally (while 
>> still searchable)?
>>
>> I realize some of these questions only demonstrate my poor knowledge 
>> of how email clients actually work, therefore I would appreciate any 
>> help.
>>
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