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<p dir="auto">On 26 Aug 2015, at 1:33, Brian Scholl wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">(And I'm also glad to learn from Bill Cole about the formail shell option<br>
to produce the .mbox file directly; I'll play with the date stuff and see<br>
how close I can get with that too.)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Try out the new Export bundle if you go down this path.</p>
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<p dir="auto">But I do hold out some hope that maybe we can still convince Benny to just<br>
hold his nose and provide an IMAP-folder-to-.mbox command in MM itself.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well, the <code>formail</code> command meant I did not have to deal with the <code>mbox</code> format myself.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Maybe this will happen if we all just keep politely asking for this --<br>
especially if we intimate that otherwise we will be using Mail.app as a MM<br>
utility, and/or that we will be poking around in MM's local files despite<br>
the warnings?</p>
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<p dir="auto">:-)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">As someone who has retained email for 20+ years including a substantial<br>
spam corpus (it's a professional focus) I share the desire for a local,<br>
integrated, purely private, and reliable mail archive.</p>
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<p dir="auto">That seems like another great example. Benny, would you really just<br>
recommend that Bill keep 20 years of SPAM online? (I'm worried that the<br>
answer will just be an enthusiastic 'yes!', but that seems like an<br>
unacceptable option to me.)</p>
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<p dir="auto">My answer is that I don't recommend that, but this is a special case and Bill is able to work around this limitation of MailMate. As Bill notes MailMate can use quite a lot of resources when used for very large message stores. Even though I have reports of more than 1 million emails handled by MailMate I didn't design MailMate for this use case.</p>
<p dir="auto">I really do believe most users should stick to a clean IMAP setup (myself included). I don't want to make it too easy to avoid that, but I'm aware that I cannot prevent users from working around this limitation and as you have seen I also answer questions related to it.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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