On 22 Nov 2020, at 15:46, Andrew Buc wrote:
Thanks for your response. The fact that we both use Fastmail puts us
on the same page.
On Nov 22, 2020, at 11:05 AM, Martin S Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:
The snag you're likely to hit is that MailMate doesn't support
mailboxes held 'On My Mac' as Apple Mail names it. It can only access
mailboxes held on an IMAP server such as FastMail. The FastMail
server will have a fair amount of space set aside for you: the exact
amount depends on which scheme you pay for. However, if you have
masses of old mail archived 'On My Mac', you should check that
there's room on the FastMail server.
I think I’ll need to upgrade from my current 2GB plan to the 30GB
plan.
I noodled around with MailMate a few years ago, and ISTR that there
was an option to import my entire Apple Mail database into MailMate,
although I didn’t actually do it. I take it that that doesn’t
address the issue you mention above, even if the database can be
imported?
Right. The imported mail has to be stored in an IMAP account. Some
people set up a local IMAP server for this (Dovecot being the simplest
choice of software.) It is also possible to import mail into a fake
never-online account, as long as you're willing to accept that it will
be an essentially static archive. Because MM considers the online
(server) version of an account's mail to be the authoritative truth, any
changes you try to make to the contents of mail imported into a fake
account will actually be pending until you (never) connect to the
(non-existent) server.
What I did is a variation on the import into a fake account. I used
Emailchemy (https://weirdkid.com/emailchemy/) to bring ~20 years worth
of Eudora mail in to MM by using its limited IMAP server functionality.
That's less justifiable with Apple Mail (which is less arcane about its
stored mail than Eudora was) so it is probably not worth the $30 license
cost.
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