Update[Wednesday, July 27th, 2011]: Theres actually a profound way to do this check it out here. [Mail Scripts]. These scripts are awesome way to organize your emails inside mail application.
Synopsis: Mailbox at work is a laughable 112mb which gets filled up with the mere bulk of notification emails from production servers. Archiving mails is only choice.
Problem: Every once in a while something comes up that forces me to search my email archive, which is a pain. (unzipping grep-ing etc). Mail program saves archived mail in weird format rhymes with NON-STANDARD.
I did the following and I am a little happy now. Its just 3 simple steps actually.
- Save the overloaded inbox to a local directory (Snow Leopard will call it
.mbox - Then Delete all the excess mail you don't want.
- Then in Mail program choose File> Import Mailboxes and select Files in mbox format and select the file saved in step 1.
That creates a neat new mailbox in "ON MY MAC" section called "import" which has all your archived email. Voila which is spotlight searchable and well .. Mail program searchable.
Phew what a relief.