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Archiving from iCloud

If you want to archive iCloud emails directly in Mail Archiver then you have to use an application specific password. After you have created such a password you can use it in Mail Archiver.

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Editing the print templates

Mail Archiver comes with 3 print templates when archiving to PDF. If you want to have a different look for your PDFs then you can change the existing print templates and make your own version.

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Archiving your Proton email with Mail Archiver

Proton offers "easy-to-use encrypted email". But - of course - even encrypted email needs to be accessed on a computer and it needs to be archived.

Proton Bridge is an additional software that you can use an email client with Proton Mail. With Proton Mail Bridge allowing normal IMAP access it can also be used to facilitate archiving emails with Mail Archiver.

Categories: Troubleshooting
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Migrating to a New Email Client: A Step-by-Step Guide

With the recent announcement that the Postbox email client will be discontinued, you may be considering a switch to a new email client. Here’s a straightforward guide to help you migrate smoothly.

Categories: Beatrix on Email
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On reporting a security problem to Apple

To archive emails from Mail my app Mail Archiver needs Full Disk Access. After revoking Full Disk Access on Sonoma Mail Archiver still was able to archive emails from Mail. When I reported the problem to Apple the ticket was closed as "not a security problem".

Categories: Misc
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How to move an archive

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.

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How to check with Activity Monitor what any application is doing

The article will show you how to peek with the system utility "Activity Monitor" what any app is doing.Let's say that an app get's stuck doing something. Here we are going to use Mail Archiver because it's convenient.

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I'm Beatrix Willius, owner of Moth Software. I blog about topics for my application Mail Archiver X. Additionally, I blog about email topics in "Beatrix on Email".

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