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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">On 19 Apr 2023, at 12:06, Randy Bush wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">corporate IT may do something overly creative. just in case, i want to
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pull some years of email off the imap server onto local disk. there are
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tools for this, but can mailmate do it in a way i can still access the
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mail while on local disk?</p>
<p dir="auto">randy
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</blockquote><p dir="auto">All emails are already on your local disk, in ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/*. Copy those elsewhere if you need to, but if you use Time Machine you already have a lot of backups of them.</p>
<p dir="auto"> —Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb" style="color: #3983C4;">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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