Right around now each year I make two new folders "On My Mac," this year they're called "2010 Inbox" and "2010 Sent." I then manually slide about 200 posts at a time from the previous year from the current Inbox and Sent mail into these respective folders. If I highlight more, the process usually chokes.
I looked into a solution with Mail 2.1.3 and Smart Mailboxes and/or Rules. Couldn't come up with anything that didn't break down on some detail. Such as the problem of trashing the old Inbox email without having it disappear from the Smart Mailboxes as a consequence. If there is indeed a way around this, it occurs to me that a clever solution would be to "archive" email as you go rather than making it a yearly batch chore - certainly possible.
I see that Leopard's Mail 3.x has an Archive Mail feature. Interesting, not that I'd suggest the expense and trouble of installing Leopard for that reason alone.
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