Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-21 Thread aisrael
Thank you for all your suggestions. Indeed Eaglefiler seems to be a worthwhile solution (there is a Mailmate bundle called Eaglefiler, that facilitates export/import, although the new “Copy to mbox” bundle is probably the most convenient (I prefer to export as mbox rather than .eml because I h

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Andrew Luk via mailmate
Another option for you, if you are using DEVONthink, you can add your email to that under Command > Devonthin > add I am sure that there would be some sort of keyboard shortcuts or can be added via Keyboard Maestro, etc On 20 Mar 2023, at 22:47, aisrael wrote: > My institution politely asked m

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Michael Nietzold
I found this TODO how to import mails from MailMate to EagleFiler (Disclaimer - I don't tested it) On 20 Mar 2023, at 20:26, John Cooper wrote: > Rob Russell via mailmate wrote (at 11:53 AM on Monday, March 20, 2023): > >> It took me a bit before I "got" EagleFiler and now I use it for many >>

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Michael Nietzold
Is it possible to have an IMAP interface to EagleFiler to attach any Mail client to it? On 20 Mar 2023, at 20:26, John Cooper wrote: > Rob Russell via mailmate wrote (at 11:53 AM on Monday, March 20, 2023): > >> It took me a bit before I "got" EagleFiler and now I use it for many >> different p

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Michael Nietzold
I read here in the mail list there was a solution with a local mail server which works as a local archive -> maybe you can look for this Is there a way to use the On 20 Mar 2023, at 20:26, John Cooper wrote: > Rob Russell via mailmate wrote (at 11:53 AM on Monday, March 20, 2023): > >> It took

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Andrew Buc
On 20 Mar 2023, at 7:48, davecc wrote: I do not recommend using Yahoo mail for any mail service. I have had several Yahoo accounts for years. Last year I noticed that several thousand messages were suddenly gone. I emailed Yahoo support and their response was basically “What messages?”. Th

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Henry Seiden
Rob, If it’s one of his products you can be sure that all questions will be resolved. Just like in SpamSieve. Respectfully, Henry Seiden - - Techworks Pro Co. E: infotechworksprocom W: http://techworkspro.com On 20 Mar 2023, at 14:53, Rob Russell via mailmate wrote: And Michael Tsai's supp

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread John Cooper
Rob Russell via mailmate wrote (at 11:53 AM on Monday, March 20, 2023): > It took me a bit before I "got" EagleFiler and now I use it for many > different purposes. I have years of emails in EF. I like the EF search though > I can also search in the Finder and the backups (Arq and TimeMachine) d

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Rob Russell via mailmate
On 21 Mar 2023, at 0:47, aisrael wrote: Eaglefiler does it (Horcrux and Mailsteward don’t, they work by directly accessing the IMAP server), but is apparently unable to perform incremential backups. How are you doing the backups? EagleFiler copies all of the files you send it, whatever they

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread davecc0000
> On Mar 20, 2023, at 6:50 AM, John Doherty wrote: > > That Yahoo will give you 1 TB for free. That surprises me but could be true. I do not recommend using Yahoo mail for any mail service. I have had several Yahoo accounts for years. Last year I noticed that several thousand messages were sud

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread John Doherty
This is an interesting question. FWIW, I would avoid mbox format, too likely to end up with huge unwieldy files although I guess that depends on how you have your mail segregated and organized. I have never looked into MailMate's export or import features before. I'm using an older version of

Re: [MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, On 20 Mar 2023, at 12:47, aisrael wrote: > My institution politely asked me to reduce by half the amount of space my > emails occupy on their server (currently 36 Go : given my position in this > institution, I had to keep ~20 years of emails; I am now semi-retired and > should be able to

[MlMt] mail archiving

2023-03-20 Thread aisrael
My institution politely asked me to reduce by half the amount of space my emails occupy on their server (currently 36 Go : given my position in this institution, I had to keep ~20 years of emails; I am now semi-retired and should be able to “delete” some of them). Therefore I decided to archive

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-02-03 Thread Pedro Lobo
This is great Benny, Just a few notes/requests: 1. Would it be possible to reflect the emails date when importing. Currently, importing emails will set the entries date to today, instead of the emails date. 2. Would it be possible to get a bundle for Together too? Cheers, Pedro On 19 Jan 20

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-02-03 Thread Matthew Cawood
OK, thanks for the clarification. On 3 Feb 2015, at 20:45, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 3 Feb 2015, at 10:22, Matthew Cawood wrote: An update: Devontech just put out an email noting that it's possible to drop *.mbox files onto the Devonthink dock icon to activate import. I tried that with

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-02-03 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 3 Feb 2015, at 10:22, Matthew Cawood wrote: An update: Devontech just put out an email noting that it's possible to drop *.mbox files onto the Devonthink dock icon to activate import. I tried that with a MailMate *.mailbox file. It works! I think I should clarify a bit here. A `.mbox` fil

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-02-03 Thread Matthew Cawood
An update: Devontech just put out an email noting that it's possible to drop *.mbox files onto the Devonthink dock icon to activate import. I tried that with a MailMate *.mailbox file. It works! It's a bit clunky compared to DevonThink's Apple Mail importer, and some things don't work out. If

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-02-01 Thread Muster Hans
On 19 Jan 2015, at 21:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:45, Olivier Bedouelle wrote: I'm use [eagleFiler](http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/) or/and [FoxTrot](http://www.ctmdev.com/foxtrot/professional_search/index.html) Inspired by the addition of DEVONThink, I also added an

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-28 Thread Matthew Cawood
For my part, elegance would be the ability to import & archive MailMate mailboxes into Devonthink using the Devonthink mail importer. I suspect the framework is already there, and it just needs a bit of UI around it. On 28 Jan 2015, at 20:53, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 17:09

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-28 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 23 Jan 2015, at 17:09, Emory L. wrote: My practice currently is to archive/index email with DEVONthink, but the process of getting things into DEVONthink isn't always elegant. Just to be sure: You are aware of the new DEVONthink bundle available for the 64 bit release of MailMate? If yes,

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Jan 2015, at 16:00, Kai Großjohann wrote: On that token, I've installed Dovecot, I'm running that on my MacBook, and I copy mails there for archival purposes. However, I'm not clear whether this means they are spotlight-searchable. (Probably not.) Hm. Is there a Spotlight indexer for

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-23 Thread Thomas Grundberg
On 23 Jan 2015, at 22:41, Matthew Cawood wrote: Not off-topic at all - I began this thread with Devonthink. What's your workflow for getting MailMate messages into Devonthink? I'm all ears. -- Thomas ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.co

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-23 Thread Matthew Cawood
Not off-topic at all - I began this thread with Devonthink. What's your workflow for getting MailMate messages into Devonthink? On 24 Jan 2015, at 3:09, Emory L. wrote: Possibly off-topic alternative to MailSteward workflow below. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015, at 09:56 AM, Gustavo Daniel Villarreal w

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-23 Thread Emory L.
Possibly off-topic alternative to MailSteward workflow below. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015, at 09:56 AM, Gustavo Daniel Villarreal wrote: > On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: > > > I think it would be much better if MailMate triggered MailSteward > > itself, e.g., by making a copy of eac

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-23 Thread Gustavo Daniel Villarreal
On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: I think it would be much better if MailMate triggered MailSteward itself, e.g., by making a copy of each archived message in a separate folder (in which MailSteward would then be allowed to delete imported messages). It would also be more effi

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-23 Thread Barton Lipman
I just back up once a week. For me, this is just a backup, though when I first got Mail Steward, I used it to archive off some much older email. Bart On 23 Jan 2015, at 3:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:59, Harvey Leff wrote: "How do you integrate MailSteward with Mail

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-23 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:59, Harvey Leff wrote: "How do you integrate MailSteward with MailMate?" In MailSteward's Settings, I specify two email accounts (one gmail account; one exchange account) to be backed up, along with the backup frequency (nightly at 10 pm). Additionally, I could specify o

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-22 Thread Harvey Leff
The database is /Users/myusername/Dropbox/Private/MailSteward Backup Files/mymaildb This works for me. Harvey Portland, Oregon USA ~ ~ ~ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:52:20 +0100 From: "Benny Kjær Nielsen" To: "MailMate Users" Subject: Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice Me

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 20 Jan 2015, at 5:58, Harvey Leff wrote: I purchased MailSteward, which AUTOMATICALLY updates a (now 10 GB) email database archive, called mymaildb, every evening. MailSteward has a pretty good search engine of its own, and I am happy with this solution. I needed an archive so I could trim

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:07, Matthew Cawood wrote: It's OK providing the attachements really *are* in Devonthink - I don't want to delete emails I've archived to DT and find the attachments are gone. MailMate provides the entire email to Devonthink. I assume all of it is then saved by Devonthin

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Barton Lipman
Same here. Except that I only update once a week. On 19 Jan 2015, at 23:58, Harvey Leff wrote: I purchased MailSteward, which AUTOMATICALLY updates a (now 10 GB) email database archive, called mymaildb, every evening. MailSteward has a pretty good search engine of its own, and I am happy w

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Matthew Cawood
On 20 Jan 2015, at 19:29, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 19 Jan 2015, at 23:25, Matthew Cawood wrote: Well that was quick! Works well, except that for some reason I can't open mail attachments in Devonthink That should be unrelated to MailMate I believe. It's OK providing the attachements

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 20 Jan 2015, at 9:55, Fredrik Jonsson wrote: Kai Großjohann 2015-01-19 22:00 wrote: On that token, I've installed Dovecot, I'm running that on my MacBook, and I copy mails there for archival purposes. I have also opted for a local dovecot server to archive all my mail. That way I always

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Fredrik Jonsson
Kai Großjohann 2015-01-19 22:00 wrote: On that token, I've installed Dovecot, I'm running that on my MacBook, and I copy mails there for archival purposes. I have also opted for a local dovecot server to archive all my mail. That way I always have access to all my mails in one place. Mailmate

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-20 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 19 Jan 2015, at 23:25, Matthew Cawood wrote: Well that was quick! Works well, except that for some reason I can't open mail attachments in Devonthink That should be unrelated to MailMate I believe. (open the .eml file in Apple Mail, and the attachment is there, though). You should also

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Harvey Leff
I purchased MailSteward, which AUTOMATICALLY updates a (now 10 GB) email database archive, called mymaildb, every evening. MailSteward has a pretty good search engine of its own, and I am happy with this solution. I needed an archive so I could trim my imap accounts' messages to not exceed a d

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Matthew Cawood
Well that was quick! Works well, except that for some reason I can't open mail attachments in Devonthink (open the .eml file in Apple Mail, and the attachment is there, though). As for configuring where the exported email goes in Devonthink: Devonthink pops up an HUD that allows you to select

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Kai Großjohann
On that token, I've installed Dovecot, I'm running that on my MacBook, and I copy mails there for archival purposes. However, I'm not clear whether this means they are spotlight-searchable. (Probably not.) Hm. Is there a Spotlight indexer for Dovecot-flavored Maildir? Kai On 19 Jan 2015,

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:45, Olivier Bedouelle wrote: I'm use [eagleFiler](http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/) or/and [FoxTrot](http://www.ctmdev.com/foxtrot/professional_search/index.html) Inspired by the addition of DEVONThink, I also added an EagleFiler bundle. If you are running the 64 bit beta

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:08, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:29, Matthew Cawood wrote: My preference is to archive in DevonThink, which holds my email archives from the mid 2000s. But it seems that MailMate and Devonthink don't hook up, I plan to add that too and I did start cre

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Matthew Cawood
Devontink is also capable of indexing files in folders outside its database. I might look at that as a workaround to expose MailMate data to Spotlight. On 19 Jan 2015, at 20:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:11, Matthew Cawood wrote: Benny - email files imported to Devonthi

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:11, Matthew Cawood wrote: Benny - email files imported to Devonthink appear as *.eml files on disk. That is the same as MailMate. Since I haven't implemented a Spotlight importer I might be wrong, but having DevonThink installed could also have the effect of adding Mail

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Matthew Cawood
Benny - email files imported to Devonthink appear as *.eml files on disk. If you plan to add DevonThink linkages, I don't need any more advice - I'll wait for that. :) On 19 Jan 2015, at 20:08, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:29, Matthew Cawood wrote: Any advice on best pract

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:57, Scott A. McIntyre wrote: I'd like to do this in a more automated fashion as well - I've returned to DevonThink pretty heavily lately and would like my mail there as well. The issue is, and Benny will correct me if I'm wrong, that MailMate doesn't do mbox; it's IMAP o

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-19 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:29, Matthew Cawood wrote: Any advice on best practice for archiving emails from MailMate? My preference is to archive in DevonThink, which holds my email archives from the mid 2000s. But it seems that MailMate and Devonthink don't hook up, I plan to add that too and I d

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-18 Thread Scott A. McIntyre
Hi, Any advice on best practice for archiving emails from MailMate? My preference is to archive in DevonThink, which holds my email archives from the mid 2000s. But it seems that MailMate and Devonthink don't hook up, so I'm looking for other robust options that are Spotlight searchable. An

Re: [MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-18 Thread Olivier Bedouelle
I'm use [eagleFiler](http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/) or/and [FoxTrot](http://www.ctmdev.com/foxtrot/professional_search/index.html) *** Olivier Bedouelle [vertdeco.fr](http://www.vertdeco.fr) On 19 Jan 2015, at 7:29, Matthew Cawood wrote: Any advice on best practice for archiving emails fro

[MlMt] Mail archiving best practice

2015-01-18 Thread Matthew Cawood
Any advice on best practice for archiving emails from MailMate? My preference is to archive in DevonThink, which holds my email archives from the mid 2000s. But it seems that MailMate and Devonthink don't hook up, so I'm looking for other robust options that are Spotlight searchable. Any advic