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**Function:** Automatically saves your Mail folder as an archive once a month.
**Author**: [Martin Sketchley](http://www.martinsketchley.co.uk/)
**Notes**: Each month this six-action workflow will create an Archive of your mail folder, which can then be backed up to an iPod or similar. The first two actions get the existing Mail folder containing the previous month's Mail archive to the Trash. The third action creates a new Mail Archive folder. The fourth and fifth actions get your Mail folder and create an archive of it, and saves the archive in the Mail Archive folder created in action three. Action six renames the new Mail archive with the current date. Save this workflow as an iCal plugin to run in the background as frequently as you wish. You can either create an "Archives" folder in Documents to run it as it is, or alternatively you can change the target folder in action one, and the destination of the saved folder created in action three.
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I have yet to try this but first I will do a complete backup of my mail first.
This sounds very promising, I love the integration with iCal.
I hope it works, like I said I will backup first and then give your script a try.
Thanks for sharing this with us Martin.
Comment by Alex Santos — November 18, 2006 @ 8:31 pm
Doesn’t work out of the box.
It went straight into the trash bin.
Shortest test ever.
Comment by Pieter Lansbergen — January 6, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
No, it doesn’t work “out of the box” – you have to adapt it. Read the notes: You can either create an “Archives†folder in Documents to run it as it is, or alternatively you can change the target folder in action one, and the destination of the saved folder created in action three.
Comment by Martin — February 17, 2007 @ 7:21 am