Well, a recent experience of upgrading Powermail when I lost a TON of email convinced me that I need to have an archive account...
But, I don't want to forward everything.. I only want to forward emails which are not junk mail (aka emails which have been moved into a folder). One of the biggest problems is now I have over 500 filters in place and I have to go in and change each one of them... ;-( Any change to the headers or email body is not acceptable, because if I loose my email again, I need to re-download everything and it needs to remain exactly like the original. I manage approximately 20 email accounts with Powermail and they receive a HUGE amount of junk email.. So I always download and delete everything from the server... Then I want to forward/redirect what are really good emails somewhere else so that I can get at them later if I ever switch email programs or have a problem with an upgrade like I did last time... I just feel like I'm swimming against the tide here trying to make this do what I need... <sigh> - Greg >well, it's a workaround and not ideal: when forwarding, forward a copy to >yourself. it will come back to you and you will need to remember that you >have seen it already and not to reforward it and blablabla. not elegant. > >guess the basic question is, why so complicated and forwarding to an >archive account? why not just an apple script which sets it to a specific >account and filters it into its own folder right where you are? > >when you forward, it does not quote btw, it only quotes when you hit >reply. but it does put in a FWD and the header/footer info of begin/end >forwarded message. > >most easy way would be to have only the archive account download and >DELETE emails from the server. So you just get the files, and >attachments, i.e. download them but no forwarding, nothing. When you are >on your archive system, you download AND delete the messages from the >server. can be set in the preferences. even set to delete messages older >than etc. I use this system with my powerbook and desktop machine and >that works well. > >---marlyse
