Hello Donal yes, that would indeed be useful. There are little touches like that which would really improve the mail client. Of course, whether it's logistically possible is another matter entirely and I'm most definitely not qualified to answer that question.
Lynne On 13 Oct 2011, at 12:09, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: Unfortunately Lynne I need to have most of the messages available for offline viewing. It's a shame that one can't do this on a mailbox granularity level. Dónal On 13 Oct 2011, at 12:04, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > 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/> 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/>
