I just bought a new macbook pro and simply restored all user data from the old 
laptop. In regards to MailMate that was everything I needed to do. It started 
right away with all mailboxrs, folders and no email was missed.

Best,
Volker

On 8 Oct 2016, at 16:44, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Once again I have the need for starting use MailMate on a different host. 
> This time because the trackpad and keyboard died on my laptop, and I have to 
> launch a backup machine.
>
> And copy settings etc to that new host.
>
> I will copy the files by using DropBox and of course I once again thought 
> about having settings there all the time and hard/soft links to the DropBox 
> folder.
>
> I think I really would like to:
>
> 1. Know what files we talk about that can be copied to a different host
> 2. Why not have them in a separate directory in the settings "hierarchy"
> 3. Hopefully MailMate will open/do changes/read/write/close in short bursts 
> (and not keep the files open)
> 4. Could MailMate state(2) those files now and then, detect when files 
> changes, and if so read the files and apps settings?
>
> But, many things in for example the Mailboxes.plist file include UUID's for 
> the identification of the mailboxes. I have not digged into that too much 
> yet, but I guess the UUID's might be different on different clients even if 
> they are the same IMAP mailbox?
>
> Yes, I know the plan is to have settings stored in the IMAP server itself, 
> but that implies you must have account settings set manually before the 
> settings can be applied. A catch-22.
>
> On the other hand, there can be race conditions anyway when for example 
> DropBox is sync:ed, MailMate started and DropBox has not sync:ed the 
> settings, MailMate create new settings and DropBox then sync the 
> settings...etc.
>
> But I think those race conditions will happen regardless of whether the 
> settings are stored in IMAP or by some shared file system...
>
> So, at least I think I would like to see in the manual one page saying "if 
> you want to start running MailMate on a new host, these are the recommended 
> steps...".
>
>    paf
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