Import emails and attachments separately, creating automatic groups and enabling space savings

[smiling]

@stratadata made me think of another advantage:

@stratadata

But one thing I’ve realised today is that another benefit of extracting the attachments form the e-mails is not just decreased storage if I make duplicate attachments replicants (I’ll probably only do that selectively), but as base64 encoded data takes up 33% more space than the unencoded data, I will save some space, too!

Looking at the relative sizes of things, the imported attachments for those 777 e-mails total 732.2MB – base64 encoding would increase that to 976.3MB, so a saving of almost a quarter of GB of space on one mailbox alone.

I’ll add it in the original post if I can still change it. Edit: no, I can’t.

All the best!