Thank you for all your suggestions. Indeed Eaglefiler seems to be a
worthwhile solution (there is a Mailmate bundle called Eaglefiler, that
facilitates export/import, although the new “Copy to mbox” bundle
is probably the most convenient (I prefer to export as mbox rather than
.eml because I have hundreds of “real” mailboxes)). I will also test
Devonthink, although I am not sure it can import a hierarchy of
mailboxes.
In the meantime, following another suggestion, I re-downloaded
Thunderbird (that would have been my favorite mail client if Mailmate
did not exist) : Thunderbird has the advantage to allow local storage,
and using the Add-On called “ImportExportTools NG”, I could import
the mbox files generated by Mailmate, while keeping all the advantages
of an email client. This is similar to what Eaglefiler can do (at least
regarding emails), and is cheaper.
Alain
PS : the advantage of Horcrux or Mailsteward (that I have tested) is the
possibility to program the automatic import of specific mailboxes at
given intervals, but I found the ergonomy of these 2 programs rather
diappointing.
On 20 Mar 2023, at 22:20, Andrew Luk via mailmate wrote:
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.
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