Archive Mail.app email with Gmail
Apr 07, '05 09:29:00AM
Contributed by: chrisale
Wondering what to do with all those GMail invites? One use I've found is to archive the four years of email I have accummulated in my Mail account. This amount of email can take up a lot of space and slow down Mail, so I'm always looking for a solution to my email archiving problem. Why not use the 2GB+ of storage on Gmail to archive everything for you? Here's how I sent my entire archive to Gmail.
- Create a Gmail account for yourself... you.archive@gmail.com might be good.
- Create a New Rule in Mail: Make it for "Every Message," and set it to Forward Message to your Gmail account.
- Deactivate (uncheck) all the other Rules except your new Forwarding one. I did this to avoid sending my new and incoming mail to Gmail as well, and to keep Mail from sorting my archives into other folders by mistake.
- Select all your archived messages (Command-A).
- Control-Click on the selection and select "Apply Rules." Mail will now go through each selected message and forward each one to your GMail account.
After you're done, just check your Gmail account and make sure the number of messages matches. If it does, you can delete your local email and have snappy Mail performance once again! And remember, you can still check GMail with your Mail.app using POP. Don't forget to switch this rule off and turn on your other rules when you're done...
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