Hi,

On 20 Mar 2023, at 12:47, 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?

you could import them into Apple Mail or Thunderbird. They support local 
folders. Thunderbird dropped native support for import, I believe, but it 
definitely works if you install the Add-On called “ImportExportTools NG”.

Cheers,
Sebastian
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