Every email from AppleMail has a corresponding file in the Mail folder. These files can be archived directly. Except for Gmail. Because there is no file Mail Archiver has to use AppleScript for archiving Gmail emails. Which is slower than reading the files directly.
Michael Tsai is the developer of Eagle Filer - a sort of competitor to Mail Archiver -, SpamSieve and DropDMG. Yesterday he warned about data loss in Mail after updating to Catalina.
Mail Archiver 5.1.5 fixes a couple of minor bugs including some fixes for Catalina.
The press is either love, peace and harmony or gloom and doom. They only report the new features of Catalina. But I haven't seen anything about the problems that Catalina has. Therefore, please update to Catalina with a plan.
Nowadays laptops still could use larger SSDs. With the smaller SSDs the large archives from Mail Archiver use a lot of space. You may want to move your archive or archives to a secondary hard disk.
Of course, you can just copy the archive to the hard disk. There are a couple of details you may need to consider.
User Michael wanted to reset the mailboxes he had selected for archiving.Of course, you can get the big hammer out and use Prefs Editor.If you want something less destructive then there is a small checkbox in the Mailbox selection of the Email Info
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