On Aug 25, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Brian Scholl <bjsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> it sounds to me like my best bet for creating a long-term-storage archive > might just be to export .eml files directly from MM (via the EF bundle, via > dragging-to-the-finder, or by stealing them from MM's private ~/Library/ > directory) and then have EagleFiler translate/collate them into an .mbox > archive for long term storage. As long as that will work for folders of ~ > 1000 messages at a time (and will preserve the dates, etc.), that sounds fine. It should. > > However, you can merge them into mbox files for greater efficiency > > if you want: > > <http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/merge-mailboxes-message> > > Do you have any thoughts about whether this would work for bulk archiving -- > e.g. if I wanted to take the entire contents of a ~ 1000-message IMAP folder, > send them all in one step to EagleFiler from MM, and then convert the results > (and only those results) into a single .mbox file? Yes, that will work. > (And does this option successfully preserve all of the dates, unlike the > simple version of Bill Cole's formail shell command?) EagleFiler will set the dates in the "From " lines based on the Date headers of the messages. --Michael -- Michael Tsai C-Command Software _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
