Use Mail's scriptability to archive messages

Jan 06, '05 09:30:00AM

Contributed by: eddyer

This hint will save you a lot of time if you archive your email from last year, quarter, etc. This applies to Apple's Mail.app program only as far as I can tell.

Using Andreas Amann's Mail Scripts, you can archive mail based on date (as well as do a lot of other things). If you select the entire folder structure, there is even an option to preserve the folder hierarchy. Nice. So my 2004 emails are archived in a folder I named "2004," with the entire folder structure preserved within it.

Oh, and unlike most other archiving solutions, it doesn't require FileMaker and it's free. Way to go Andreas!

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