There are lots of options for backing up Apple Mail.

Now a post on macOSXHints adds another, an AppleScript app that will do an incremental local or network backup of your Mail folder. It can also back up Entourage‘s mail folders.

The script has a nice GUI front-end and seems to work well. It is clearly designed as a tool for sys admins to deploy over a network for the benefit of less knowledgeable end users, but is not restricted to that task.

As the poster says, it is still a work in progress, but it quickly created a local backup of my Mail Folder without any hiccups.

One cautionary note. A full backup of Mail.app includes more than the Mail folder. It also includes your Address Book and com.apple.mail.plist preference file.

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Tags: Apple Mail, backup, entourage, Mail folder

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