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<p dir="auto">One other option is to run a dovecot IMAP server locally on your Mac and add it to MailMate. This gives you an ‘On My Mac’ account that MailMate sees as just another server. Two disadvantages:</p>
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<p dir="auto">It takes up twice the space on your Mac as dovecot stores the messages/attachments and MailMate stores its ‘cached’ versions too.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Whilst you can mostly set up dovecot and then forget it, occasionally it might have issues and you then need to spend some time getting it running again (this generally only happens if there’s a major update to dovecot or MacOS).</p>
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<p dir="auto">Luckily Fredrik Jonsson keeps a page regularly updated which gives simple instructions for getting dovecot running and noting any issues with updates (to either dovecot or MacOS):</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://xdeb.org/post/2014/running-dovecot-as-a-local-only-imap-server-on-os-x/" style="color: #3983C4;">https://xdeb.org/post/2014/running-dovecot-as-a-local-only-imap-server-on-os-x/</a></p>
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