If you trust your email provider, just create folders and move stuff there. That's it.
If you don't trust your email provider, either: 1. Find a provider you can trust--easiest, most convenient, and safest option in the long term. 2. Create local mailboxes on your Mac, and move stuff there. You can archive these mailboxes at any time, and re-import them. They're in mbox format, which is portable in case of need. 3. Save messages, either in raw format from the save commands, or in specific files using TextEdit. I still recommend the raw EML files, because they are complete representations of the mail as you received them. But text works too. Remember that if you use Time Machine, it is also backing up the offline content of your remote IMAP mailboxes; if your provider goes away, or you are disconnected, you still have the stuff, in a very deep pinch. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
