[DM-MUG] Mail Steward

[Victoria L. Herring]

Dave talked last night about Mail Steward, a way 
to archive emails etc.  I was searching for it 
and found this helpful discussion online... 
http://madprofessor.net/2006/03/mail-steward.html

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.

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
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3 Comments
CrackWilding said:

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.
March 19, 2006 10:11 AM
mns said:

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.

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.
March 29, 2006 2:37 PM
Cap'n Hector said:

I haven't had any issues on my boxŠI have over 
350,000 e-mails in my copy of Mail.

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