I'll toss in another suggestion you might consider: use Thunderbird and its Local Folders.

Connect Thunderbird to your IMAP account in the usual way and let it sync. This will take a while if you have a lot of mail. Create as many sub-folders of Local Folders as you want. Be sure to double-check the Retention Policy in the properties of the local folders. Select messages from the IMAP account and move them to one of the local folders.

The messages will be stored in ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<profileID>/Mail/Local Folders.

On Sat 2025-07-26 06:07 PM MDT -0600, <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote:

If I want/need to save server space, I'll need to delete old messages; but surely I can keep a local copy of those old messages on my Mac, but how?

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