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I have a lot of emails and so I make archives for every year. When I move emails from 2004 to the acutal archive, it's important, that I don't file them into the "archive2003" folder instead. So, I locked this mailbox in the Finder. The directory of the Mail.app's Mailboxes is /Users -> Library -> Mail -> Mailboxes. I used Xray, an application that allows you to lock every file AND folder (because the .mbox files are packages).

Now, when I accidentally drag emails into this closed archive, I get an error message in Mail.app, as seen at right.

[robg adds: When I tested this, I locked the folder using the Finder's Get Info dialog box; I just changed my permissions (in the Permissions section) to "Read only," and it worked as described. If you are going to archive old emails, you might also want to remove the archives from the Mail directory entirely -- burn them to a CD or store them on another disk. That way, they'll be accessible when you need them, but they won't be taking space on your boot drive.]
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Lock a mailbox in Mail.app
Authored by: ennisdb on Mar 22, '04 04:50:37PM

So, how does one go about archiving e-mails in Mail.app?



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Authored by: Connie on Mar 22, '04 10:28:32PM

I, too, was wondering about this and was waiting for someone to reply but decided that since no reply all day I would look it up under "Help". It was a bit of help with some things but I'm still not sure how to do it like they were mentioning. If you find out let me know by posting it back here.
Connie



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Lock a mailbox in Mail.app
Authored by: dave2003 on Mar 23, '04 12:18:46PM

Mail Scripts - includes a script to archive mail boxes. See version tracker at

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16217



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Authored by: ulrich on Mar 22, '04 05:06:03PM

this seems to work fine with POP accounts. But does anybody know how to do this with IMAP accounts?



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