How to archive mac mail messages?

zeeple

Hi all,



I am curious the best practice for archiving email in Mac Mail. I have thousands of emails generated by work that I neither wish to delete nor keep in my current folders.



I have tried drilling into /library/prefs/mail/.... and manually moving .emlx files to a diff folder on my hard drive but when I do that the email count doesn't change for the folder in mac mail.



Any suggestions?

Thanks!

jbl

If I understand you correctly, what you want to do is to rebuild the mailbox you are moving the messages out of. Select the mailbox and choose rebuild from the mailbox menu.



Unfortunately, I cannot figure out a good way to rebuild more than one mailbox at a time. What I would like to do is synchronize mail between several computers by synchronizing the "on your computer" mailboxes. That is easy enough (using something like Synchronize X Pro). And it seems to work fine if I rebuild any mailbox that changes. Unfortunately, I can't figure out a way to tell Mail to rebuild all of my mailboxes; I have to select them one at a time and choose rebuild (if you select multiple mailboxes, rebuild is grayed out). Does anyone know a way around this? Maybe with AppleScript?

zeeple

Thanks JBL That worked to get the number of messages correct, but what I _really_ want is some sort of archive functionality in Mac Mail, similar to what Outlook has. Seems like a basic function to me.

jabohn

You can drag the folders one at a time directly out of Mail instead of going into the Library to do it manually.