Can you create sub-folders in Apple Mail and store them on a drive the way you can do is Microsoft Outlook? In MS Outlook, you could create a .pst folder and create as many sub-folders.<\/p>\n
Can you do the same thing in Apple Mail?<\/p>\n
Apple Mail can do so much more than OutLook..<\/p>\n
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Mail uses some lightly different terminology, in Mail “folders” are called “mailboxes” and they correspond to real folders in the file system in the users account under \/Library\/Mail\/mailboxes\/…<\/p>\n
Another major difference, is that mail messages and attachments are stored as files in OSX.<\/p>\n
What does that mean for you, the MOSX user?<\/p>\n
– you can copy these off to an archive volume by dragging & dropping, similarly they can be restored to your normal mail setup the same way; \u00c2\u00a0Drag and Drop, requires you to simply open the ~\/Library\/Mail folder, and drag the mail folder to new location. \u00c2\u00a0Your backup is complete.<\/p>\n
– In Leopard, you can just right click, and choose archive, and choose export all subfolders.<\/p>\n
– if you have moved old mail to another volume for archival reasons, double clicking a message will open it directly in Mail<\/p>\n
– if you use Time Machine or similar for backup, each incremental backup only needs to copy the changes to your mail each time (ie what has been received\/sent). if you are using outlook or Entourage the whole database gets copied every time it changes. \u00c2\u00a0Microsoft has not indicated that this will change in future versions of Entourage \/ Outlook.<\/p>\n
Now to answer the original question. \u00c2\u00a0How do you create a subfolder?<\/p>\n
From the MailBox Menu, choose “New Mailbox”. \u00c2\u00a0 A new dialog window will appear, containing “Location”, and a field for the mail folder’s name. \u00c2\u00a0The “On My Mac” location literally means on your macintosh.<\/p>\n
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— Updated 8\/2\/2009 to add Leopard’s Mail Right click option, and to clarify drag and drop exporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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