I allready do something similiar, but with Pegasus mail.
Most of the time (when on DOS) I download and view E-Mail with
Arachne but leave the messages on the server.
Then after a few days I download everything with Pegasus.
I never keep any message in Arachne - Shift-F8 is a short-cut
to a "del c:\arachne\mail\*.cnm" batch file. I use it daily.
Pegasus is the archive instead.
Once a month, I create a temp folder and move all the messages from
last month to it (Pegasus keeps all the mail in single mail files
for each folder), then compress that temp folder with RAR, and move
it to a "mail backup" directory. Names are like this:
\mailback\survpc\jan99.rar for January 99 - SurvPC letters,
\mailback\arachne\dec99.rar for December 99 - Arachne letters, etc.
Thought that it might help.
(its quite space efficent, btw.)
Or Botton
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