You can also save e-mails - as well as webpages in Safari - in pdf format via 
the print dialogue.  Look for pdf button and in there you will find the various 
formats in which you can save an e-mail into a preferred folder.

Andrew
On 24 Sep 2014, at 10:38, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you trust your email provider, just create folders and move stuff there.  
> That's it.
> 
> If you don't trust your email provider, either:
> 
> 1.  Find a provider you can trust--easiest, most convenient, and safest 
> option in the long term.
> 
> 2.  Create local mailboxes on your Mac, and move stuff there.  You can 
> archive these mailboxes at any time, and re-import them.  They're in mbox 
> format, which is portable in case of need.
> 
> 3.  Save messages, either in raw format from the save commands, or in 
> specific files using TextEdit.  I still recommend the raw EML files, because 
> they are complete representations of the mail as you received them.  But text 
> works too.
> 
> Remember that if you use Time Machine, it is also backing up the offline 
> content of your remote IMAP mailboxes; if your provider goes away, or you are 
> disconnected, you still have the stuff, in a very deep pinch.
> 
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