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How to archive old mail in Mail.app?
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I am required to keep all my mail going back a number of years, but I don't want to store it on my primary machine. I really want to be able to archive it once a year, and dump the previous year out to an external. I may be called on to search that, so want relatively easy access to it if I need it, but I don't want it on a day-to-day basis - what's the best way to do that?
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in 10.5 it's really simple; right-click (or control-click) on any folder(s), and you can archive them, save them wherever, and delete them from mail.
in 10.4 (etc), check versiontracker.com...lots of apps to archive mail...
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OK, so now I have a .mbox mail archive - how do I restore or search it? Thanks!
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Originally Posted by peeb 
OK, so now I have a .mbox mail archive - how do I restore or search it? Thanks!
try this (am not on my mac right now); go to import menu in Mail, choose mbox, and follow the prompts to import that mbox back into mail...
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