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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">On 15 Jan 2017, at 0:04, Kai Großjohann wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">On 31 Dec 2016, at 21:30, Dave C wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">If I understand, MM does not provide a means to download messages from the IMAP server to local HD for archiving locally. All MM’s features are to be used to move messages between IMAP folders.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Yes. Benny has described in the past a mechanism for creating a dummy account and to use its cache as a stand-in for a local account. This was described as a workaround and I don't think it's officially supported.</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">That is correct. I'll repeat the main caveat since it's important: If you move an email from an <em>online</em> IMAP mailbox to an <em>offline</em> dummy IMAP mailbox then it'll look like it was a successful move in MailMate, but it'll leave MailMate with a pending move it cannot complete. MailMate is very careful about not deleting an email from the online IMAP mailbox until <em>after</em> it has completed the upload to the <em>offline</em> IMAP mailbox (which never succeeds). The end result is that the message is going to stay in the online IMAP mailbox and this can be seen using any other IMAP client including MailMate running on other machines.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">(One can force the move by instead doing a copy holding down ⌥ and then delete the original message, but this is cumbersome.)</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">What I do is to run Dovecot on my MacBook and that's where my local mail goes. It means that the local mail is on my disk twice (once in Dovecot and once in MailMate's cache). That's the price I'm paying for being too chicken to do the workaround thing.</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">That's wise in my opinion :)</p>
<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">For long term archival I now simply recommend dragging emails out of MailMate to save them on disk and then delete them in MailMate (and thereby on the IMAP server). These are still going to be searchable using Spotlight and viewable in MailMate (but not searchable in MailMate).</p>
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Benny</p>
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