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Maybe some of you haven't tried to archive your mailbox messages and still left them there inside your Mail inbox. I cannot say that it's not good, but I can say that archiving your mailbox can save you mail space because it'll help you remove the attachment by saving only the plain text and also can help you organize better your incoming mail.
Archiving Mailboxes
This feature comes along with Mac OS X Mail. It's relatively easy to archive your mailboxes. What you need to do is highlighting mailboxes that you want to archive, Control-Click and choose Archive Mailbox.. or also can do Archive Feed...
Importing Mailboxes
It's also a piece of cake when you want to import your existing mailboxes; You only need to follow several simple steps :
- Open Mail
- Go to File ▸ Import Mailboxes
- Choose Radio Button: mbox files
- Select .mbox Files and Do the Importing
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Email and Chat
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2 Comments
Sylwester
ctrl+click the mailbox opens the menu, but there is no archive or archive feed in the menu (OS X Tiger, Mail)
Mark Reeder
Brilliant, Mailbox>Archive Mailbox already worked for me before I found this URL. but... I ran the Archive command and have now a file called mbox which is so small that I want to test it really has everything (as it looks like the attachments have been dumped then it's rubbish). I'm guessing that I get this back by using the mbox file - but I'm suspicious as that all smells like Microsoft outlook malboxes (and recovery of them). Why on earth doesn't the MacOS mail dialog make clear the relationship between archives and mbox ? Right, now I'm ready to risk testing my guess...
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