unkey monkey
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I am a pack rat
I don't delete anything from my inbox.
I read it and leave it there. This is very helpful when I need to search for things like who sent me a message 2 yrs ago. What was the name of the guy I met from such and such company.
My problem is that I have 200K messages in my inbox and search is quite sluggish. I also find that mail uses a lot of CPU indexing the messages.
I see that I can archive things, but this creates a mbox file. The problem is that once I do that, I lose my search capability. I need to import the mbox file in order to search, but that is too slow and cumbersome.
Is there any way to get the messages out of mail in a way that I can still search them if I need to?

I don't delete anything from my inbox.
I read it and leave it there. This is very helpful when I need to search for things like who sent me a message 2 yrs ago. What was the name of the guy I met from such and such company.
My problem is that I have 200K messages in my inbox and search is quite sluggish. I also find that mail uses a lot of CPU indexing the messages.
I see that I can archive things, but this creates a mbox file. The problem is that once I do that, I lose my search capability. I need to import the mbox file in order to search, but that is too slow and cumbersome.
Is there any way to get the messages out of mail in a way that I can still search them if I need to?