In order to backup these emails quit Mail, and in Finder use the Go – Go to Folder menu and type in ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/īackup the archive mailbox from this location. Click the Archive button at the top of the interface. Once the process is complete do a Get Info on your mailbox again to see how much space you’ve saved. Select an email or multiple emails (they should be highlighted in blue). I was able to work with 6 months at a time. To get around this I made a new Smart Mailbox containing everything from the folder I was working on prior to a particular date. I found it difficult to work with more than around 2000 messages at a time. To watch as Mail processes use the Windows – Activity screen. This can take some time as we are downloading possibly thousands of messages and attachments. Mail dragged from your account to one of the mailboxes on your Mac will be moved and deleted from the server, freeing up space. If you wish to archive other mailboxes I suggest you make a local mailbox for each and name them appropriately. Sent will probably be by far your largest mailbox. Make sure the location is “On My Mac” and call it something that makes sense to you. Open the Mail app on your iPhone, and then navigate to the Mailboxes screen.

To create a new mailbox, click the Plus sign and select New Mailbox. How to Find the Archived Emails on an iPhone 1.

You can archive from every IMAP account including Gmail and Office 365. To archive email, we need to move them to a mailbox on your Mac. Set up Mail Archiver X in 3 steps: select where you want to archive from (email client or IMAP account), select mailboxes, select location of archive Now you can start archiving Support for email clients, IMAP and mbox Supported are Mail, Outlook, Postbox and Thunderbird. To see the size your folders are using, right-click your mail account and “Get Info”.

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