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The "All my mail" mailbox of Mail.app has exploded. What to do ?
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<blockquote data-quote="michelangelo" data-source="post: 1944578" data-attributes="member: 54225"><p>Hello !</p><p></p><p>After over 30 years on multiple generations of macs, My set of mailboxes containing, on my mac, more than 12 mailboxes have declared independence from the "all mail" single inbox gathering (formerly) all my <strong>incoming mail</strong> together with all my <strong>sent mail</strong>. </p><p></p><p>Now, I must check routinely a dozen of incoming mail mailboxes, multiple "sent mail" mailboxes, plus the unavoidable spam mailboxes (which problem was not reduced by the use of Spam Sieve). All "on my mac" and on separate imap synchronised mailboxes.</p><p></p><p>I have tried many avenues to fix this. No success so far:</p><p></p><p>1 - Complete OS reinstall. Did it. No change.</p><p></p><p>2 - Archive it all and restart. Not found archiving solution (the mac equivalent to windows' PST Bridge does not seem to exist);</p><p></p><p>3 - Redirect all incoming email (on all accounts) to a single mail box on my mac. I have not tried it yet, fearing it could increase my spam-related problems (and I generally do not use my iPhone for email);</p><p></p><p>4 - Route all my email through gmail (with the expectation it would also improve my spam-related issues). It worked on a gmail webmail account, collecting or receiving all the others, I could create a client account on Mail.App receiving all received email (reference was "How do I Route my Email through Gmail on "Ask Leo") but could not configure this mailbox to send mail. I failed on the SMTP server configuration on iCloud. </p><p></p><p>5 - I did not explore further the webmail types as I prefer mail clients (claris emailer 2 was my favorite).</p><p></p><p>6 - I did no check on the choice of using other mail clients. </p><p></p><p>All this on a reasonably modern macBook Air M1 (2020) on MACOS Monterey with multiple backup and an acceptable archiving solution (except for email).</p><p></p><p>I am probably not alone in this, and the solutions may be multiple. Any pointers or suggestions, or names of books for sale, or success stories will be warmly welcome. This is a single post, on macForums. </p><p></p><p>THanks in advance to all contributors. I will attempt to summarise, if useful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michelangelo, post: 1944578, member: 54225"] Hello ! After over 30 years on multiple generations of macs, My set of mailboxes containing, on my mac, more than 12 mailboxes have declared independence from the "all mail" single inbox gathering (formerly) all my [B]incoming mail[/B] together with all my [B]sent mail[/B]. Now, I must check routinely a dozen of incoming mail mailboxes, multiple "sent mail" mailboxes, plus the unavoidable spam mailboxes (which problem was not reduced by the use of Spam Sieve). All "on my mac" and on separate imap synchronised mailboxes. I have tried many avenues to fix this. No success so far: 1 - Complete OS reinstall. Did it. No change. 2 - Archive it all and restart. Not found archiving solution (the mac equivalent to windows' PST Bridge does not seem to exist); 3 - Redirect all incoming email (on all accounts) to a single mail box on my mac. I have not tried it yet, fearing it could increase my spam-related problems (and I generally do not use my iPhone for email); 4 - Route all my email through gmail (with the expectation it would also improve my spam-related issues). It worked on a gmail webmail account, collecting or receiving all the others, I could create a client account on Mail.App receiving all received email (reference was "How do I Route my Email through Gmail on "Ask Leo") but could not configure this mailbox to send mail. I failed on the SMTP server configuration on iCloud. 5 - I did not explore further the webmail types as I prefer mail clients (claris emailer 2 was my favorite). 6 - I did no check on the choice of using other mail clients. All this on a reasonably modern macBook Air M1 (2020) on MACOS Monterey with multiple backup and an acceptable archiving solution (except for email). I am probably not alone in this, and the solutions may be multiple. Any pointers or suggestions, or names of books for sale, or success stories will be warmly welcome. This is a single post, on macForums. THanks in advance to all contributors. I will attempt to summarise, if useful. [/QUOTE]
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