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. > > Alain_______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
