![]() If you had not already evaluated EagleFiler, it would have been my first recommendation. I would be very interested to hear what other people have done or could suggest. I looked at EagleFiler, but it’s interface just didn’t work out well for me, plus if you want to actually work with any of the emails you pretty much need to reimport them into Mail. This is very quick and easy, but: sorting emails into individual folders once they get there is not very good I created Mail rules but they don’t work unless specifically executed, which is problematic, searching is now only available in Mail.app, and I need to backup the Synology data since it is not subject to the standard BackBlaze and cloning on my Macs. ![]() Synology mail server: I created a mail server setup on my Synology, which allows me to just drag messages in AppleMail to this account and they get stored there. In addition, I have written rules in DT to have imported emails automatically sorted to the correct database (work related, personal, etc) but have found DT’s rule execution unreliable, although I have not been able to troubleshoot why. On the other hand, DT is a very heavy-weight app that may be overkill, and I keep going back and forth on just keeping things in a plain file system vs an app. I can import multiple emails at once and DT does a reasonable job of it, and displays and searches them reliable - and can index them in Spotlight as well so HoudahSpot will work if DT’s own search does not. There is no way to script having Mail write an email to a PDF.Īrchive to DevonThink: I keep going back and forth on whether I want to use DevonThink or not. However, the fact that a dialog pops up for each save makes it harder and glitch-prone to save multiple messages, and so right now the KM macro works on only one selected email at a time, and of course UI scripting (even with KM’s ability to select menu items) is always glitch prone. The files are named with a standard filename format that includes a SHA255 hash of the message to ensure uniqueness, and tagged as ‘email’, ‘has attachments’, ‘mail attachment’, etc, and Hazel can sort the emails based on which account they came from.Īdvantages include local files that can be backed up, sync’d, etc, easy searching with Spotlight or HoudahSpot, easy viewing as PDFs or other documents. I wrote a KM workflow that does this using Mail’s Save of PDF menu item, and also exports the entire raw email message and then parses out attachments to save in separate files (I don’t do this part in AppleScript because there are bugs in AppleScript’s ability to save mail attachments that Apple has not fixed in multiple OS versions).
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