I think that is the way I want to go! Thunderbird on my PC is the „central mail client“, so I just have to draw the archived years (imap) to a local folder. The advantages: If I look for an older mail, I do not have to search in seperate archived files (mbox/eml). And with backing up thunderbird, I have a backup of all my settings AND mails!
My Lemmy-client forces me to add a picture. I was pretty sure to find a solution with thunderbird - what I did