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Use Mail's scriptability to archive messages
Authored by: vdanen on Jan 06, '05 11:23:11AM

An even better way is to setup a mail rule to archive every incoming message... this way you can delete to your heart's content, filter, and so on and still keep an archive of every message you get. It takes a little manual moving each month to keep things clean (typically I have a mbox called Current where everything gets dumped and once a month I just move out last month's messages into it's own mbox). The rule is simple; as your very first rule (or second if you want to do some spam filtering first) do "If [any] condition is met: [Every message] then [Copy message] to [Current]" where Current is the name of my archive mbox. I usually have it as a sub-mbox of a folder called Incoming; in the same folder I have the folders named 2004-12, 2004-11, etc. Then you can just drag them to the desktop to make a separate mbox file and burn them to CD if you like... I archive every single incoming and outgoing message and have for the past 3 years.



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Use Mail's scriptability to archive messages
Authored by: Schwie on Apr 07, '05 12:39:45PM

Can you please explain how you can automatically apply a "Rule" to outgoing messages, or apply a rule to any message I send? It appears that Rules only apply to incoming messages arriving in your inbox, but your post seemed to indicate otherwise...

I like to keep an archive of everything I send and I've been trying to figure this out since I switched from Outlook on a PC.



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