On 16 Jan 2017, at 9:52, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 15 Jan 2017, at 0:04, Kai Großjohann wrote:
On 31 Dec 2016, at 21:30, Dave C wrote:
If I understand, MM does not provide a means to download messages
from the IMAP server to local HD for archiving locally. All MM’s
features are to be used to move messages between IMAP folders.
Yes. Benny has described in the past a mechanism for creating a
dummy account and to use its cache as a stand-in for a local account.
This was described as a workaround and I don't think it's officially
supported.
That is correct. I'll repeat the main caveat since it's important: If
you move an email from an *online* IMAP mailbox to an *offline* dummy
IMAP mailbox then it'll look like it was a successful move in
MailMate, but it'll leave MailMate with a pending move it cannot
complete. MailMate is very careful about not deleting an email from
the online IMAP mailbox until *after* it has completed the upload to
the *offline* IMAP mailbox (which never succeeds). The end result is
that the message is going to stay in the online IMAP mailbox and this
can be seen using any other IMAP client including MailMate running on
other machines.
(One can force the move by instead doing a copy holding down ⌥ and
then delete the original message, but this is cumbersome.)
What I do is to run Dovecot on my MacBook and that's where my local
mail goes. It means that the local mail is on my disk twice (once in
Dovecot and once in MailMate's cache). That's the price I'm paying
for being too chicken to do the workaround thing.
That's wise in my opinion :)
For long term archival I now simply recommend dragging emails out of
MailMate to save them on disk and then delete them in MailMate (and
thereby on the IMAP server). These are still going to be searchable
using Spotlight and viewable in MailMate (but not searchable in
MailMate).
--
Benny
Does dragging produce any different results to Command -> Export ->
Select Export Folder, and can the results of either or both methods be
re-imported using File -> Import Messages ?
What does Command -> Export -> Copy to box actually do?
Thanks,
David
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