At 8:15 PM -0400 5/25/04, Neil Herber wrote: >At 2004-05-25 07:40 PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have said: >>...snip.... >>received. Are there any mail clients for the Mac OS that store messages >>as individual files? If not, any suggestions on backing up mail clients >>in general? Thanks, Anibal Escobar > >Eudora uses a separate file for each mailbox (folder) rather than one giant >file for all of them. So if you can discipline your users to move items >into folders you can reduce the size of the backups somewhat. > >I had to actually sit down at one user's machine and create several new >folders called "inbox2000", "inbox2001", "inbox2002", and "inbox2003". I >then moved the mail from the one giant inbox to these extra folders. It >immediately reduced the backup size by a few hundred megs. They have NEVER >asked me where their older mail was and I suspect they have never looked >at it.
That's what I do, except that I do look at older mail, especially with the search function. My largest archive is 30 MB (a mailing lists' archives for 2001), but a good backup app would note that it hadn't been modified since Jan 12, 2002. I have 465 MB in my mail files and another 50 MB in my attachments folder. Eudora doesn't blink about handling it. The next time someone tells you that everyone should be using IMAP, that'll be me saying 'One size does not fit all' in the background. I wish I could get it to auto-archive, though... -- Michael Croft http://www.whiterose.org/michael SAM: It's 106 miles to the Crack of Doom. We've got a magic ring, two daggers, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses FRODO: Hit it. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
