Keeping "stacks of old email inside an Archive folder in Mail" is exactly what I do, but I keep my mail on only one machine so I don't have to worry about compressing/decompressing it.
Inside my Archived folder I keep my old mail in subfolders named by month/year, Jan04, Feb04, etc. I generally delete it if it's more than a year old. My problem is that Mail won't search in subfolders (or I haven't figured out how to make it do that), so if I highlight "Archived" and enter a word in the search box, it doesn't find anything. I have to highlight each month's subfolder and search it individually, which is a bit of a pain. Does anyone know if Mail has a preference or setting that will tell it to search folders within folders? I suppose I could just put all my old mail loose in the Archived folder, but that somehow offends my sense of organizational ethics. Dan > Hey Folks, > > Does anyone have a good strategy for archiving email from Mail? > > I've figured out that it is OK to move xxx.mbox files with any > corresponding xxx folder over to some other location, since it seems > OK to Mail to move them back in to the Mailboxes folder. This seems a > bit klutzy, however. Is there something that works better? > > I would just keep the stacks of old email inside an Archive folder in > Mail, but I drag my mail from machine to machine, so the big piles of > crusty mail add to the time to compress and decompress the mail. > > Perhaps this is some sort of overoptimization which isn't needed? > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
