Catalina, I wish I'd never installed it

[davbro (David Brostoff)]

@Simon

Sure, we can all just manually archive hundreds of thousands of emails, but then what do we do when they disappear? Sure, import from those archives. But who says that will then work?

I used EagleFiler to archive my messages, which was painless. The archive is very easy to search and I have found no need to re-import.

If you do re-import from EagleFiler (or other archive software, I think), messages lose their status such as read, unread, etc. However, you can also import from a clone, which preserves message status.