On 17 Dec 2013, at 20:49, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

Specifically:
- where does MailMate store messages and its index files?

It's all here:

        ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/

Messages are here in standard format:

        ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/

Database index files are here:

        ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Database.noindex/

- when I launch the app, it offers to import accounts that it's found in my current default mail client (Thunderbird). Before I do that, can I check what it will do?

MailMate only imports the IMAP account settings found and then fetches all the messages from the IMAP server (MailMate is fully offline and keeps a local copy of all messages). MailMate is IMAP only and therefore no messages are imported directly from Thunderbird (or Apple Mail).

Are there any other tips to avoid grief; or more positively, suggestions for how to find my way around the app, how to get the best sense for it?

If you rely on having an HTML composer then note that this is not available in MailMate (except for simple Markdown-generated HTML). Other common requests are HTML signatures, correspondence view, non-strict threading of messages, message redirection, and probably much more.

It's easier to read the manual on the web page than using the built-in Help pages (at least that is my opinion): http://manual.mailmate-app.com

Thanks for considering MailMate.

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Benny
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