Hi Philip On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:
I still have all my email messages since 2002 but keep only a relevant (and therefore *very small* and *constantly fresh*) subset in my email app of choice (currently MailMate) and all the rest in archives (external to the email app and servers and searchable via Finder and/or an email archive app).My archives go back to the mid-nineties. Since mail (generally) compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I decided a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything than to regularly evaluate what's relevant. When laptop disks were still expensive and connectivity less ubiquitous, I used a selective imapsync to only download my most active mailboxes. It was error-prone and painful to maintain.
Just interested, with mail base so large, have you ever considered/evaluated something like [MailSteward](http://www.mailsteward.com/) or similar?
Cheers
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