too many emails in mail osx

[Deivy Petrescu]

At 3:58 PM -0500 1/6/04, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
>Help,
>
>I have way too many emails now in OSX Mail. Does 
>anyone know of an archiving application for OSX 
>for Mail?
>
>I have almost 5000 emails and I do like to 
>search them for answers to scripting problems.
>
>Tom
>

Tom, go to  Mail folder in your (or whatever user 
you want to do this) and select whatever of your 
mailboxes you want to work with. Say for the sake 
of this example you runrev account.
Open the folder POP-runrev at dicas.com.
Control-click on the INBOX.mbox and select show packages content.
The mbox file you see in the new "Finder" window 
is a text file with all your messages. It can be 
opened with TextEdit.
Do whatever you want with it.

Actually, Eudora and Mail use text files than can 
be open by any application. A big plus when 
talking about proprietary technologies.
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Regards
Saudações

Deivy
http://www.dicas.com