Hi Benny, thanks for your usual ultra-fast reply; I'm going to try as soon as the backup ends, I'll keep you updated of the outcome.
Best regards, Alberto On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Benny Kjær Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > >
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