'Archiving' Mac Mail messages by date

[dakotaspurs]

Hi everybody,

Not sure if it is possible to do this but if anyone knows how to it would be great.

I file all of my emails in folders under the 'ON MY MAC' section of Mail. But after 4 years I obviously have a lot of emails here that I would like to clear out.

Does anyone know of any scripts or apps that would allow me to search all of these folders and move/archive all emails up until a certain date to a new area (outside of Mail) and then allow me to delete these emails from Mail?

I have see this app online http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/email-archiver/id407821589?mt=12 but not sure it does what I am after, and it definitely doesn't delete the files from Mail.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Simon

 

[lpeedin]

You could set up a rule to move any message that has a receive date greater than 1461 (4 years) to an archive folder, then periodically you could manually export that folder.

 

[dakotaspurs]

You could set up a rule to move any message that has a receive date greater than 1461 (4 years) to an archive folder, then periodically you could manually export that folder.

Sounds so simple it could just work Thanks lpeedin