I'm trying to find a way to (as automatically as possible) archive emails. I'm using IMAP and I want to try to get the messages off the server and onto my laptop because it takes too much time and CPU cycles for Mail to tell the IMAP server to do all the grunt work, especially when I have upwards of 100,000 emails on the IMAP server. I've considered switching to POP3, but I've decided that IMAP is still the best solution, taking other issues into consideration as well.
I've looked at Mail Scripts, but it doesn't have the functionalty I want (namely it doesn't work with Smart Mailboxes, nor can do you have the same level flexibility of specifying dates and such as a Smart Mailbox does.
What I've come up with is I've created a Smart Mailbox which lists all messages older than 3 months (these are the messages I want to archive). I've also created an On My Mac folder where I would like to store all the archived email. My problems are:
1) How can I move the emails from the Smart Mailbox into the On My Mac folder?
2) The move of the messages should be done by Mail itself, otherwise, unless there is a way to automate the process, I will have to tell Mail to manually rebuild the On My Mac folder or else the messages that have been copied to the On My Mac folder will not be viewable in Mail, nor with they be caught by other Smart Mailboxes.
Anyone have any brilliant suggestions, or perhaps another way to do this all together?
Thanks in advance...
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