Question about archiving emails

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I use emClient with an IMAP account, which has about twenty folders in the inbox to classify mail (suppliers, clients, colleagues…) according to rules I have created.

Some of these folders can contain a couple of thousand emails. So far, everything works fine but… I have noticed that sometimes emClient takes too long to check the content of some of these folders (I remind you that it is IMAP) and I would like to increase the speed of emClient by lightening these folders by moving old content to the local archive. I thought that archiving would be a good option.

My question is; if I activate automatic archiving, does the archive folder replicate the folders in the inbox or is everything archived put into a single folder?

I have read in the forum that it does preserve labels and other attributes but I don’t know if it would also replicate the folder structure of the inbox.

If I didn’t do this, it seems like a bad idea to me, all my mail would be disorganized. This is my fear.

Thank you very much for your time and attention.
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Hi Faex,
As far as I know, all archived emails will be moved to the archive folder without preserving the folder structure. Archiving just moves the emails off the server and into a local storage folder (database) on your PC. There are a couple of alternatives that you could consider that do the same thing.

1. Use Local Folders instead
Another way to do this is to create Local Folders with the same folder structure as those in your Inbox and just manually move the older files from each folder in your Inbox to the corresponding Local Folder. Like Archive, Local Folders are stored as a single database on your PC, but unlike Archive, you need to move the emails manually.

2. Use Data Files
If you don’t want all your archived files stored in a single database, you can create a Data File (separate database) for each supplier and manually move emails that you want to archive into the separate Data File folders. This is a new feature for v10 that is similar to Outlook PST management.

Hope this gives you some alternatives to explore!

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For automatic archiving, so moved from the server to local Archive, the folder structure is maintained.

It is only for server-side archiving, where the archive is on the server, that the folders are ignored.

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Thanks, @Gary. Good to know, I have only ever tried manual archiving. :+1:t2:

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Thank you very much, you have been very helpful to me. :grinning:

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