On 27 Jan 2020, at 15:16, Jo wrote:
Just switched over to MailMate from PowerMail. I’ve been hanging onto PM for a very long time, but it seems it’s not gonna work with the next OS upgrade, so here I am.
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> Also, what if I just want to save some emails by physically moving them into a folder? I’m guessing that’s something with ‘archives’ but I can’t seem to figure out how to make this happen. What I’d like it not to accidentally delete them when I am in the basic ‘inbox’ somewhere. In PM, if I put something in a folder, that’s the only place it was. Here it seems to be a ‘copy.’ OK, I know it’s not a copy, more like an alias, I guess? But whatever, I don’t want to see it elsewhere, because I might accidentally hit delete. Does that make sense?
I’m a fellow PowerMail-user-since-forever who recently moved to MailMate when PM no longer worked w/ my OS upgrade. Here are the steps I take to create that kind of folder: First, in the vertical list labeled “Mailboxes” along the left margin of MailMate, I scroll down to the label “Sources.” Immediately under “Sources” is my email address, which I highlight. Then I click on the “gear” at the bottom, and the menu it shows includes “New IMAP Mailbox in [my email address]”.
I click that option which (unsurprisingly) creates a new IMAP Mailbox under my email address above. I type in a name for that mailbox. Then I can drag any emails from my inbox into that mailbox. The message no longer appears in my inbox—it appears only in that new IMAP mailbox. I’ve created quite a few of those IMAP mailboxes so I can keep important messages, find them easily, and not worry about accidentally erasing them.
Hope that helps. Am guessing those who’ve used MM longer will be able to tell you simpler, quicker, or better ways to do what you want to do.
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