In order to improve performance and make more efficient use of disk space,
EagleFiler prefers to store e-mail messages in mailbox files (using the
standard “mbox” format), and it does not allow them to be moved from one
mailbox to another. Thus, it is best to organize messages into the mailboxes
that you want (and to delete messages that you don’t want to save) before
importing them into EagleFiler. Nevertheless, several organization options are
available once your messages are in an EagleFiler library:
- You can merge multiple mailboxes into one. For example,
if each month you import mailbox A into EagleFiler,
you’ll end up with lots of A mailboxes in the library,
each containing one month’s worth of messages. By merging all
of the A mailboxes into one, you can reduce visual
clutter and make EagleFiler run more efficiently.
- You can drag messages from mailboxes to folders. This deletes the
messages from the mailbox and stores the messages as individual
.eml files in the folder. This is not as efficient as storing
one file per mailbox, but it allows for more flexible organization.
- You can organize messages (from different mailboxes) into
tag sources. As with playlists in iTunes, each message
can be in more than one tag source at a time.
- The easiest way to avoid storing duplicate messages is to
delete messages in your mail program after you’ve imported
them into EagleFiler. You can also delete individual messages
from an EagleFiler mailbox, although this will not save disk
space; it will only hide the messages from view.