Hello Donal First thing I would suggest is only download the headers of messages, rather than the full messages. Unless, of course, you want to view them off line.
As for importing iMAP folders I have no idea about that. But we find that downloading only headers definitely does help overall. Lynne On 13 Oct 2011, at 09:56, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: Hello all, Well like most of you I have tens of thousands of mails just sitting around. I don't want to get rid of them, however as I'm using iMap I know that they can sometimes cause a heavy load when large folders need to be downloaded or synced. The way I've done this till now is to create a smart mailbox and move everything that's older than 18 months in there. Then once a month I simply archive this folder. However, this has one drawback in that if I want to re-import (does this word actually exist?) messages back into the original place they came from it won't work. I could, of course, simply copy folders from point a to point b on either my server or local machine and then delete old/unwanted mails but frankly that's too much like effort. So my question is do others have different strategies for doing this? Best, Dónal Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
