Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-20 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 13 Feb 2018, at 0:16, Rick Holzgrafe wrote: This means that we need a way to preserve our archived mail. That’s easy enough—EagleFiler will do it, or we could just make a Finder copy of our cache folders. But these mechanisms do not preserve the tags (even though both EagleFiler and the

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-13 Thread Fredrik Jonsson
Angelo Machils 2018-02-13 8:37 wrote: Just remember that dovecot is only part of the equation, you also need to configure stuff like postfix (or exim), spamassassin etc. If you want to store mail locally on your own computer then only Dovecot is needed. If you want to run a proper mail

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Angelo Machils
Hello, Just remember that dovecot is only part of the equation, you also need to configure stuff like postfix (or exim), spamassassin etc. On *nix, there is a package called iredmail that makes installing (and configuring) a lot easier. Perhaps you could also look at something like Zimbra,

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Rick Holzgrafe
You’re the second person to suggest running a local Dovecot server. One of the bits of good news in all this was that I was looking forward to letting experts worry about the server stuff. I’m not an expert, and maintaining our own server has been a nightmare. So I’m a bit allergic to the

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 12 Feb 2018, at 18:16, Rick Holzgrafe wrote: Is there any way to preserve not just the mail, but also the tags that we have applied in Mailmate? I have explored the Application Support > Mailmate folder, but as far as I can tell the tag info is not stored there, except for a handy list of

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Fredrik Jonsson
Rick Holzgrafe 2018-02-13 0:46 wrote: We are still among those who, in spite of Benny’s advice, would like to keep a local (and properly tagged) mail archive, so I’m still interested in finding a way to do that. But it’s good to know that we have at least one solution likely to work for us;

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
MacOS Server uses Dovecot; if your new mail host runs Dovecot, I think that the tags will transfer. If they're friendly, you'll be able to copy over the Dovecot directories. However, when I did that on a (non-Apple) Dovecot server I run, I had to delete the dovecot.index* files. On 12 Feb

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Rick Holzgrafe
Thanks, Paul. That might work, if our hosting service will support our large volumes of saved mail (probably yes, if I throw money at them) and if their server fully supports tags (I’m sure I can find one that does). We are still among those who, in spite of Benny’s advice, would like to

Re: [MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Paul Sture
One of the beauties of IMAP is that if you point your mail client at two servers, you can drag existing mails from one server to the other. I initially did this to transfer stuff from a POP server/client setup into IMAP with a different email provider. Where both servers are remote,

[MlMt] Preserving tags

2018-02-12 Thread Rick Holzgrafe
We have a small email server box of our own, running Apple MacOS Server. We access it with Mailmate, and we use Mailmate’s tags feature heavily to organize our tens of thousands of messages. Apple has announced that it will discontinue the mail server feature. We are going to have to move to