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<div>Dave talked last night about Mail Steward, a way to archive
emails etc. I was searching for it and found this helpful
discussion online...<font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">
http://madprofessor.net/2006/03/mail-steward.html</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">searching had slowed
to a crawl. My Mail.app seemed to be slower and buggier lately as
well. Guessing that I had too many email messages in the database, I
tried a highly-recommended email archiving program called
MailSteward.<br>
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It's easy to use. Just click the "Setup" button and then
click on a few checkboxes, then click "Store email in database."
It took all night for it to index my files, but once it finished, I
was able to clean out my email app and start from scratch. Now, at the
end of each day, I click "Store email in database," button
and MailSteward sucks all the new mail from that day into its
database. $29.95<br>
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3 Comments<br>
CrackWilding said:<br>
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A cheaper alternative: make a new mailbox, drag a bunch of mail into
it. Quit the app, find the mailbox in
/YourUserAcct/Library/Mail/Mailboxes. Burn it to a disk or whatever
and delete the original. Now, if you need something, you can pop the
disk in open the mailbox from Mail.<br>
March 19, 2006 10:11 AM<br>
mns said:<br>
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By the way, you can't have "too many email messages in the
database", because mail is stored in flat files, not a database.
Mail Steward *creates* a database, then imports mail into it.<br>
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And like CrackWilding said, you can just drag your mail elsewhere, or
copy it from /Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/pathtowhatevermailbox/
to some other directory, which, unlike Mail Steward, is free.<br>
March 29, 2006 2:37 PM<br>
Cap'n Hector said:<br>
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I haven't had any issues on my boxŠI have over 350,000 e-mails in my
copy of Mail.</font><br>
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