thank you for incredibly fast response. i am studying mail steward and then will pick best route forward. on another front, o you know it mailtags is compatible with mail mate? tom
On 14 Nov 2012, at 7:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote: > Send mailmate mailing list submissions to > mailmate at lists.freron.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mailmate-request at lists.freron.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mailmate-owner at lists.freron.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of mailmate digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. importing (Tom Gillett) > 2. Re: importing (Benny Kj?r Nielsen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:36:14 -0500 > From: Tom Gillett <tfgillett at gmail.com> > To: mailmate at lists.freron.com > Subject: [MlMt] importing > Message-ID: <50B3A77E-D853-474A-958D-E969131874E0 at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > hi there > i am attempting to move from mac mail to mail mate. In mac mail i > have shown under ON MY MAC a folder called "Filed Email". This is > where i drag emails into specific sub folders appropriate to a > particular subject. how do i move this all to mail mate? > tom > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:46:45 +0100 > From: "Benny Kj?r Nielsen" <mailinglist at freron.com> > To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com> > Subject: Re: [MlMt] importing > Message-ID: <E0FFF5AE-6FAE-4656-AB3C-072D2D8012DD at freron.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; > markup=markdown > > On 13 Nov 2012, at 13:36, Tom Gillett wrote: > >> i am attempting to move from mac mail to mail mate. In mac mail i >> have shown under ON MY MAC a folder called "Filed Email". This is >> where i drag emails into specific sub folders appropriate to a >> particular subject. how do i move this all to mail mate? > > First of all, make sure you understand that MailMate is IMAP only. The > emails within ON MY MAC are local and not on any IMAP server. This is > the main problem. To solve it there are various alternative options: > > * Use Apple Mail to create a ?Filed Email? mailbox within an IMAP > account and move the emails to that mailbox (by default MailMate uses > the name ?Archive? for a mailbox with the same purpose, but you can > name it whatever you want). MailMate should then automatically pick up > the new mailbox and its messages. Essentially this solution means to > first upload the messages and then download them again. It is > inefficient, but it is also the safest approach. It also requires you > have sufficient space on the server. > > * Use the ?File ? Import Messages? menu item in MailMate to import > the messages directly from the mail folder used by Apple Mail. It is > somewhere in `~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-.../...`. > > * Use a different application for long term archival if you only want > the messages offline. I know some users like Mail Steward, but I > haven't > tried it myself. > > The first option is best, because it'll also keep any keywords on the > messages such as whether a message has been seen, answered, flagged, > marked as junk, etc. > > Thanks for trying out MailMate! > > Kind regards, > > Benny > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate at lists.freron.com > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > > > End of mailmate Digest, Vol 20, Issue 3 > ***************************************
