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<p dir="auto">On 15 Feb 2017, at 23:57, Mark Chapman 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">My regular IMAP mail provider has had a catastrophic hardware failure. Unfortunately, before it went down completely it replaced all my mail with mail from 2013. I am hoping that they have a good backup that will restore everything when the hardware is replaced. However, in the interim I need access to my mail.<br>
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I have everything backed up but am uncertain how to selectively restore that one account. I think the mail would be found at:<br>
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~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/account<br>
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However, I don't think I can just replace the existing directory with the one from backup. How do I go about this?</p>
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<p dir="auto">You need to use “File ▸ Import Messages...” to get the emails into the account again. MailMate can then upload the emails to the server. If you have some overlap then “Edit ▸ Select Duplicates” might be helpful. It selects duplicates and not the originals (the originals are assumed to be the messages first seen by MailMate). It only looks at <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Message-ID</code> and size, but that should be good enough for most purposes.</p>
<p dir="auto">You might also want to consider switching IMAP provider.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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