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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">On 16 Jan 2017, at 14:49, David Ledger 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">Does dragging produce any different results to Command -> Export -> Select Export Folder,</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Dragging produces <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">.eml</code> files (raw RFCx822 emails equivalent to what is store don the IMAP server). These are indexed by Spotlight (using a plugin included with MailMate). The “Command ▸ Export” adds emails to an <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">.mbox</code> file using the <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">formail</code> command. The filename is based on the IMAP folder path.</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">and can the results of either or both methods be re-imported using File -> Import Messages ?</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Yes.</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 does Command -> Export -> Copy to box actually do?</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Appends the selected emails to a <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">.mbox</code> file within the selected export folder (by default this is <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">~/Desktop/MailMate Export</code>). The name of the <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">.mbox</code> file is based on the IMAP mailbox path of the selected emails (this might be multiple files).</p>
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Benny</p>
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