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A script ... for those attachments...?
Authored by: progosk on Dec 13, '04 04:17:48PM

is there nobody who can help with archiving Mail.app mails INCLUDING the attachments...?

even some complicated way (like the imap server thing), or, i don't know, offloading all the messages to a different user on my pb - anything to relieve my Mail.app from the huge load of stuff (i need to keep all my mails...)

I hate myself for it, but i'm starting to get nostalgic for Outlook Express, for which there was a great archiving app (OEA) to get everything into a wonderful Filemaker database...



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how to save a folder as an MBOX file
Authored by: blech75 on Dec 13, '04 05:26:45PM

to save all the messages in a folder using mail.app, go into the folder, select all the messages and then do file -> save as. select "message source" and name the file with a .mbox extension. this is a standard .mbox file that can be used by any program.



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A script ... for those attachments...?
Authored by: aamann on Dec 13, '04 07:07:42PM
You might want to look at "Mail Scripts" for exporting Mail.app mailboxes into standard mbox files without having to go through all the manual hassle:

http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/

As a side note - you will most probably lose all status information (read, replied, ...) doing things that way. This includes the little attchment indicator in Thunderbird. It should show up again once you actually select a message in Thunderbird and it realizes that there are some attachments present. It should be possible to preserve that status information (even using AppleScript) - I will look into cooking up a little script to do so later tonight (I don't currently have access to a Mac to try things...)

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