Following this thread ¡ what springs to mind is, that you can do SO MUCH with Automator if you fiddle around with it a bit, you'll be amazed!?
Another thought is: How much mail do you have? How much space does it take up? (~/Library/Mail/V10 ¡ cmd-i)?
My thought would be to copy the entire V10 folder (it¡¯s called V10 in Sequioia, probably V9 in Sonoma and so forth ¡ can¡¯t remember bu youll figure it out) to a USB for store keeping. And after that simply use Mail to delete anything older than 1 or 2 years. With your USB backup, you can always find old stuff, if you deleted too much.
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Peter
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On 9 Apr 2025, at 16.34, John via groups.io <OceanCity@...> wrote:
Running most recent versions of Sequoia, Apple Mail, and Spamsieve, on a Mac Studio M2 MAX.
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Looking for a way to automate a rule or smart mailbox to automatically delete some of my bloated histories of emails after xx number of days going back years that are only taking up space.
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After poking around I can't find any way to automate this.?
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Any ideas?
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All the best,
John?
