On 2010-03-30 12:02 , Arden Currie wrote:
What is the best way of archiving older email in Mail? I have created a new mailbox and moved all the email I want to save into it. Then what, find it in ~/Library/Mail/ and burn it to a disc? I am concerned that it may not always import into newer versions of Mail so it can be viewed and searched. Nothing worse than an error message saying the mbox is corrupt and can't be imported.
as noted, Mail uses maildir format with extras; there is at the moment no reason to expect Apple to change the format in the future; since each maildir message is an individual text file, you can always write a script or something in case maildir support is lacking 30 years from now (and you really need your old emails); i think this is better than any consolidated database format
leaving messages on disk in an "on my mac" folder is a good option because SpotLight indexes them and will open them in Mail from search hits; when you back up you computer, you've backed up your email too; i have all my email since the early 90s on my computer and it doesn't take too much space (about 6 GB)
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