Unfortunately Lynne I need to have most of the messages available for offline viewing. It's a shame that one can't do this on a mailbox granularity level.
Dónal On 13 Oct 2011, at 12:04, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello Donal > > First thing I would suggest is only download the headers of messages, rather > than the full messages. Unless, of course, you want to view them off line. > > As for importing iMAP folders I have no idea about that. But we find that > downloading only headers definitely does help overall. > > Lynne > > On 13 Oct 2011, at 09:56, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Hello all, > > Well like most of you I have tens of thousands of mails just sitting around. > I don't want to get rid of them, however as I'm using iMap I know that they > can sometimes cause a heavy load when large folders need to be downloaded or > synced. > > The way I've done this till now is to create a smart mailbox and move > everything that's older than 18 months in there. Then once a month I simply > archive this folder. > > However, this has one drawback in that if I want to re-import (does this word > actually exist?) messages back into the original place they came from it > won't work. I could, of course, simply copy folders from point a to point b > on either my server or local machine and then delete old/unwanted mails but > frankly that's too much like effort. So my question is do others have > different strategies for doing this? > > Best, > > Dónal > Dónal Fitzpatrick > [email protected] > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
