On 25/04/2006, at 1:00 PM, Andrew wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to move old e-mail out of Mail into
another folder?
My wife has around 500 read e-mails she wants to keep. It might be
unrelated, but it's taking longer to open Mail and I thought this
would un-clutter it and help it open quicker.
Andrew
iMac 20 G4
10.3.9
Hi Andrew,
All email clients have limits but the Mail.app stores all messages in
individual mailbox files in mbox format instead of in a single large
database file that is used by Entourage and most other email clients.
The recommended limit for an individual Jaguar or Panther mailbox is
1 GB and for Tiger Mail, 2 GB.
The only limit for the overall size of the Mail folder at Home >
Library > Mail which stores all individual mailboxes is your
available free hard drive space.
Unfortunately, the Mail.app does not include a built-in automated
process to save messages and/or mailboxes outside of the Mail.app.
You can Archive some mailboxes or all messages up to a certain date
by using Mail Scripts.
<http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html>
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16217#screenshots>
The script to use from the package of included scripts is Archive
Messages (Mail) which moves messages from the selected mailbox(es) to
an archive mailbox or export them to standard mbox, plain or rich
text files for backup purposes or import into other applications. You
can select to move all messages or only messages sent within or
certain period as well filter messages based on their read and
flagged status.
Cheers,
Ronni
Car'n The Pies
