For what it’s worth, I finally switched to IMAP after nearly 20 years of using
POP and the experience has not been good. Mail.app seems ill-quipped to handle
large amounts of mail and performs very poorly when it has to sync tens of
thousands of messages to an IMAP server across many folders.
Yes, I realize this is not a typical use case and my IMAP experience may have
been better if I were using a better client, but Mail.app is not impressing me
these days. It is almost impossible to find robust mail clients since the
demise of Eudora (which, while handling large amounts of mail with aplomb, was
abominable in a number of other ways).
If you have a lot of mail, tread carefully with IMAP and Mail.app, especially
on 10.11.
Matt
> On Jan 19, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm reticent to make any such suggestions at all, since doing this using IMAP
> is WAY simpler than doing it using POP with a Rube Goldberg back-end. You're
> essentially spending much time and energy — and playing with what are
> essentially internal interfaces that Apple can change on a whim* — to
> replicate IMAP without actually using IMAP. You could get an IMAP connection
> working with a fraction of this effort, and never have to worry about it
> again.
>
>> On Jan 19, 2016, at 5:57 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I habitually use POP3 mail on both my Desktop and Laptop with the latter set
>> to leave files on server. By simply transferring the ~/library/mail folder
>> between the two machines using Chronosync I kept both up to date.
>>
>> With the latest iteration of Mail and El Cap 11.2 this doesn't seem to work
>> as Mail.app has spread various components around: EG there's some stuff in
>> /private/var/folders/FEEEE-DDDD..., others in ~/library/application support.
>> Very Windows……
>
> *:
>> Can someone tell me which of these are essential to be synchronised?
>
>
>> I don't really want to set all accounts to IMAP unless I really really have
>> to, since the last time I tried it I took a whole day to sort out the
>> resultant mess.
>>
>> Any suggestions for an easy method of synching mail between the two machines
>> would be welcome. I did wonder if putting the primary mail folder
>> ({whichever that is) in DropBox and using a symlink would be a viable, if
>> kludgy, option.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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