On 10 Nov 2015, at 15:24, Alberto Caporro wrote:
after experiencing a total loss of our email server, I'm trying to add
to MailMate a new account pointing to the new server; connection
parameters are the same.
I've left hanging around the old account (in offline state), so that I
can later copy back all my emails to the new account.
You need to be very careful. If MailMate goes online and thinks it's the
same server (which it'll think if the settings are the same) then its
first action is going to be to delete its local cache since the emails
are gone server-side.
The problem is that, when I add an IMAP account, MailMate seems to be
confused and updates the old one with the data I input.
Hmm, it would be better if MailMate simply refused to do anything.
Internally, MailMate cannot handle two accounts with the same settings.
I've already tried changing the parameters of the old account to
something else (which doesn't matter, since it's offline), but the
same still happens.
It seems that MailMate somehow "remembers" the server the old account
was configured with (or the email address, or something else) and gets
confused.
Something like that happens. MailMate always remember the original
settings. This is for efficiency reasons (to avoid a lot of renaming).
I'm not really sure how to best do this. **At least make sure you have a
backup of all your emails.**
This might work:
* Create an account with some dummy settings.
* Move all emails/mailboxes to the dummy account.
* Remove the old account (“Mailbox ▸ Remove Source” after
selecting it under SOURCES).
* Update the settings in the dummy account.
This should mean that the emails do not have UIDs which implicitly means
that they are uploaded to the server (instead of being deleted when
synchronizing with the empty server).
--
Benny
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