<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Hey, Paul —<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">I’m doing something similar now — though instead of a bespoke Johnny Decimalish system I’ve elected to go with strict alphabetic folders (labels, really) for each correspondent, as well as one for each year (1990 to present). I have about 300,000 messages, and also use Fastmail.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">I have found it most practical to use server rules and features whenever possible for two reasons:<br></div><ol><li style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Messages will be much more likely to be exactly where I expect them and in the state that I expect them to be in no matter whether I’m using my primary Mac client (MailMate) or a web interface or an iDevice app.<br></li><li style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">It lightens the CPU load on my Mac.<br></li><li style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">If my Mac or Mac client is out of commission or offline or giving a presentation or something, mail processing continues without me.<br></li></ol><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">There are some actions that Fastmail doesn’t support (moving or labelling messages after a certain amount of time has passed, for example) that must be done locally; for these, of course, I do use MailMate rules.</div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">In the past, I have found it <i>absolutely critical</i> if I want to avoid client crashes and SPODs to do reörganization work directly in the Fastmail interface, and to keep IMAP/JMAP clients utterly in the dark (offline) until I have finished.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Once I’ve finished reörganization in Fastmail, I reëngage clients one at a time by relaunching them <i>and waiting for them to completely sync</i> before I launch any other clients.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">And at <i>this</i> point I will engage (or create) any necessary MailMate rules.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">I hope this helps, and would be happy to answer any questions (although I’m scheduled for surgery and a couple of days in the hospital shortly, so there may be a delay!).<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">— <a href="https://erikmh.org/">Erik</a></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">------<br></div><div>**2024-06-23 13:07 | [Paul Atlan](mailto:<a href="mailto:paulatlan@fastmail.fm">paulatlan@fastmail.fm</a>)**:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:sans-serif;"><div class="qt-markdown" style="text-wrap:wrap;"><p dir="auto"></p><div>I’m trying to tame my fastmail account by creating a number of nested mailboxes with rules and conditions.<br></div><div> (not really relevant, but I’m using my own take on the Johnny Decimal system)…<br></div><div> There are about 14 000 messages in my fastmail account.<br></div><div> Unfortunately, MailMate hangs very often (as in , three times in the last ten minutes) when editing the mailbox rules.<br></div><p></p><p dir="auto">I haven’t been able to nail down a specific action that makes it hang.<br></p><p dir="auto">In some cases, if I wait a minute it will finish whatever task is ongoing and un-hang, but most of the time I’ll have to restart mail mate.<br></p><p dir="auto">Is there a way:<br></p><ul><li>to identifiy wich actions create the hang-up , so I can maybe mitigate them<br></li><li>alternatively to edit the rules “off-line” as it where and then apply them?<br></li></ul><p dir="auto">Thanks!<br></p></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>mailmate mailing list<br></div><div>Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate">https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div></body></html>