If you really need a local storage:

 - how about running a local imap server on your Mac?

Von meinem iDingens gesendet...
>> Am 26.08.2020 um 19:42 schrieb Antonio Leding <t...@leding.net>:
> Hello all — Thank you very much for your responses…the feedback is very 
> helpful.  I also use C-Command’s SpamSieve and EagleFiler products as both 
> are phenomenal at what they do.  Talking specifically about EagleFiler, I 
> personally looked at several different methods and apps for email archiving — 
> DevonThink, MailSteward, Evernote, local exports, and even a custom database 
> — and for me, EF was the best all around option.
> 
> I must admit that while I have already setup a few accounts in MM, I had not 
> yet noticed that in-app local message storage was not available (just hadn’t 
> tried it yet) so thank you for educating me there.  With that in mind, does 
> anyone know why this wasn’t implemented?  Was this intentional, too much 
> work, etc?  Also, is there sufficient user desire for implementing in-app 
> local storage?  I admit that as I write, this, I am forced to consider that 
> maybe not having this feature is a blessing in disguise because it probably 
> forces some of us to use a more reliable archival process and\or not keeping 
> large amounts of mail on the server.
> 
> Again, thanks for your feedback and please feel free to keep it coming…
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 26, 2020, at 8:20 AM, Eric Sharakan <eshara...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 26 Aug 2020, at 10:55, Philip Paeps wrote:
>> 
>> On 2020-08-26 06:20:56 (+0800), Antonio Leding wrote:
>> 
>> My core questions would be around performance (I have well over 150k 
>> messages across 12 email accounts), reliability, SpamSieve functionality, 
>> things you wish you’d known before migrating, etc.
>> 
>> I wouldn't worry about performance or reliability too much with only 150,000 
>> messages. There are people on this mailing list with millions of messages 
>> and MailMate "just copes". :) (I have just shy of 2 million messages and I 
>> have one mailbox with just over 150,000 messages in it. I know that I am not 
>> the biggest email hoarder here.)
>> 
>> As an FYI, I did check out the Mailmate Mailman archive but didn’t find a 
>> lot concerning migrating from Apple Mail…hence this message.
>> 
>> If I were to venture a guess ... I'd say it's pretty uneventful for most 
>> people. :)
>> 
>> These are some functional differences I encountered between MM and Apple 
>> Mail:
>> 
>> No POP3 support
>> No built-in spam filtering
>> No local, "on your Mac" mailboxes. Everything is stored on the server.
>> Composing rich emails is done with Markdown
>> For me, the first item was a non-issue. To address the second, I use 
>> SpamSieve (Apple Mail's junk filtering had really begun failing me anyway). 
>> For the third, I bought EagleFiler to archive older emails I had been 
>> storing locally with Apple Mail.
>> 
>> SpamSieve and EagleFiler are both excellent products from C-Command Software 
>> (https://c-command.com/)
>> 
>> Finally, composing emails with Markdown took some getting used to but I now 
>> really like it. One of the (few) complaints I sometimes read about MM is 
>> that the Markdown processor used is a bit old and crufty, and missing some 
>> features.
>> 
>> All in all I'm an extremely happy MM customer, and simply can't imagine ever 
>> going back to Apple Mail.
>> 
>> -Eric
>> 
>> Philip
>> 
>> -- 
>> Philip Paeps
>> Senior Reality Engineer
>> Alternative Enterprises
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