Archiving Mac Mail emails per year

hello
is there an easy way ( read: automatic, by script ;-) to archive my Mac Mail emails per year ?
thx in advance
Henny

As I looked back at my test Smart Mailbox, you could use something like that to group them all and then move them into the new Year hierarchy which would sort of semi-automate the process.
Build your 2010 hierarchy and then create the 2010 smart mailbox for a particular folder in your archive. Select all in the smart mailbox and move to the new 2010 folder of same name. Edit the smart mailbox for each folder and repeat. Sounds a bit tedious, still, depending on how many subfolders you have and how many years you go back.
And more ideas. I created a 2010 Smart Mailbox that got all emails for 2010. I then typed in one of my Archive folder names in the Search box and selected Mailbox as the criteria type from the search dropdown. So, for instance, if I wanted to look at my online orders from 2010, I selected the 2010 smart mailbox, and then typed Online Orders into the search field. When the various matching criteria popped up, I selected Mailboxes.
This method would allow you to keep your Archive grouping neatly organized and not have the hierarchy duplicated each year. Smart Mailboxes can be grouped by dragging them on top of one another, so you could keep the Year mailboxes neetly organized, also.

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