On 2012-04-02, Frank Eves MD <[email protected]> wrote: > > Arno, I use Mail with Gmail, but I exclude Gmail's 'All Mail' folder so I > can't answer your question, but I'll bet Benny Kjær Nielsen the developer of > MailMate will know the answer to your question.
Thanks, I forwarded Benny my question and he responded very quickly. His understanding (though not verified) is that with Lion, Mail.app uses a directory structure similar to what they use for cache files and the iPhoto Library where files are split into multiple segmentation levels. In my case, he thinks this would result in around 240 files per directory. While this could still blow up, it'll take a much greater number of total messages. MailMate uses flatter directories, but by default doesn't map the All Mail folder anyway. It's been my experience that almost no one actually uses All Mail in their local clients. So, while Mail.app seems like it might solve my problems, I'm for now satisfied with my updated setup. I backup "All Mail" using offlineimap, exclude those directories from TimeMachine, and backup my mail archive using rsnapshot. The hourly rsnapshot task takes an average of 6 minutes. I have no idea why TimeMachine was taking upwards of an hour for the same data. Hopefully this exercise has been of some use to someone else. World Backup Day occurred this weekend; is anyone else keeping a local archive of their messages like this? Does everyone else just rely on their mail client? Or on the mail server? -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
