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<div><div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">On 22 Nov 2020, at 18:51, Andrew Buc wrote:</p>
<blockquote><blockquote><p dir="auto">On Nov 22, 2020, at 3:40 PM, Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@comcast.net> wrote:<br>
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Transferring old emails into an IMAP server may not not the best approach. You can still access any local folders via your AppleMail, or you might transition to a mail archiving utility for old messages, e.g. MailSteward.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I want to bring some of my legacy emails (mainly years- or decades-long correspondence with friends) into MailMate so I can use MailMate’s search functionality on them.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">If you have good enough upload bandwidth, add the IMAP server<br>
to Apple Mail and move your POP mail folders from your old<br>
account to the new IMAP account. If you're short on disk space for<br>
email, at this point delete the account from Apple Mail. When you<br>
point MailMate at the new IMAP server, it will pick up the folder<br>
structure and all of the mails. When you're happy with that, delete<br>
the Apple Mail account if you haven't already done so, to free up<br>
the space used by those duplicate messages.</p>
<br><p dir="auto"> --Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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