On 26 Aug 2020, at 10:55, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2020-08-26 06:20:56 (+0800), Antonio Leding wrote:
My core questions would be around performance (I have well over 150k
messages across 12 email accounts), reliability, SpamSieve
functionality, things you wish you’d known before migrating, etc.
I wouldn't worry about performance or reliability too much with only
150,000 messages. There are people on this mailing list with millions
of messages and MailMate "just copes". :) (I have just shy of 2
million messages and I have one mailbox with just over 150,000
messages in it. I know that I am not the biggest email hoarder here.)
As an FYI, I did check out the Mailmate Mailman archive but didn’t
find a lot concerning migrating from Apple Mail…hence this message.
If I were to venture a guess ... I'd say it's pretty uneventful for
most people. :)
These are some functional differences I encountered between MM and Apple
Mail:
- No POP3 support
- No built-in spam filtering
- No local, "on your Mac" mailboxes. Everything is stored on the
server.
- Composing rich emails is done with Markdown
For me, the first item was a non-issue. To address the second, I use
SpamSieve (Apple Mail's junk filtering had really begun failing me
anyway). For the third, I bought EagleFiler to archive older emails I
had been storing locally with Apple Mail.
SpamSieve and EagleFiler are both excellent products from C-Command
Software (https://c-command.com/)
Finally, composing emails with Markdown took some getting used to but I
now really like it. One of the (few) complaints I sometimes read about
MM is that the Markdown processor used is a bit old and crufty, and
missing some features.
All in all I'm an extremely happy MM customer, and simply can't imagine
ever going back to Apple Mail.
-Eric
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises
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