I don't have the same size account as Joe, but will second his
endorsement. I was also using Mail.app and found it way too slow. I've
never had the kind of problems with MailMate you describe and think
there must be something wrong in your configuration or some process
that's interfering in some way.
Good luck!
Bart
On 13 May 2015, at 12:12, Joe Abley wrote:
Hi Jim!
I use MailMate with gmail and IMAP mailboxes, five accounts total,
with somewhere in the region of 5 million messages between them and
something like 25,000 in the combined inbox.
I have experienced none of the problems you describe.
I mention this not to call you a liar :-) but rather because perhaps
it points to a problem somewhere else in your environment; I'm running
the latest yosemite on an 11" macbook air, installed from scratch (no
upgrades or transfers from any previous laptop or OS). If the history
of the OS on your machine is more extensive than that, perhaps there's
some old cruft that is causing your problems. Worth a look, anyway if
you want to try harder with MailMate.
I used Mail.app before Mailmate, and only stopped because I have too
much mail for Mail.app to be able to thread properly. I gather this is
a known issue with the hash function used to index messages, but
having been through multiple point and major releases of OS X waiting
for a fix, I finally gave up and switched. MailMate doesn't suffer
from that problem, and now that I'm used to it I can't imagine
switching back even if Apple's mail team got their act together.
I've never been able to stand thunderbird. It has too much of the
stench of GNU about it, with the attendant disastrous
design-by-engineer/late-90s-X-windows design aesthetic. :-)
Joe
On 13 May 2015, at 11:07, James Galvin wrote:
I have spent almost 3 weeks trying to migrate to MailMate but
unfortunately there is something wrong.
This past weekend I submitted several crash dumps, just in case
anyone here can check those.
Sending a message here is my last hope so here goes.
1. I use Thunderbird now. It works for me just fine although it has
one issue I've learned to accept. I was hoping to get past this
issue with MailMate, especially given the high recommendations it
gets. I've used MacOS Mail before but with Yosemite that stopped
working with Google Apps. Mail tried to be too smart and it failed
miserably but that's a separate discussion.
2. I have 4 IMAP accounts, 2 of which are Google Apps based. The
first time I tried a migration I just imported all 4 accounts using
MailMate and let it go to work. This never worked. It would crash
if I ever tried to use it while it was synchronizing. So, I bailed,
removed the accounts and started over with just one.
3. MailMate worked great when I imported 1 account. I used it for a
week and was finally getting used to the changes when I decided to
import another account.
4. Importing the second account has never worked.
a. MM crashes randomly. I have submitted some of the crash reports I
encountered though not all.
b. MM never sticks the default columns. I always have to revert a
display to the default columns. This randomly causes crashes.
c. Switching mailboxes randomly causes crashes.
d. Synchronizing has never completed on the second mailbox. The
account always shows a spinning wheel. I have removed and restarted
the import several times. I removed MM and reinstalled once. I let
the synchronizing run with an otherwise idle laptop for almost 3 days
over a weekend and it never ended. When I look at the activity
window it is actively stepping through messages on this one account.
e. Oddly, the header line of "Trial day # of 30" randomly shows it is
day 3, 4, 5, or 6, always. As I said, I'm almost at the end of 3
weeks now.
f. The mailbox in question is 1/5 the size of the first mailbox. The
first mailbox has almost 100,000 messages in it total. This mailbox
has less than 15,000.
I'm willing to start this process one more time if anyone happens to
have a specific suggestion on steps I could take to better monitor
the problem and see specifically what is going wrong. I'm also
wondering if submitting crash dumps is actually helpful.
I'm willing to believe there might be something about my laptop given
that MM has so much success with so many people but I'm at a loss to
know what that is. This is a work laptop so it only has what it
expressly needs loaded on it.
Any thoughts from anyone?
Jim
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