[MlMt] importing

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 13 Nov 2012, at 13:36, Tom Gillett wrote:

> i am attempting to move from mac mail to mail mate.   In mac mail i 
> have shown under ON MY MAC a folder called "Filed Email".  This is 
> where i drag emails into specific sub folders appropriate to a 
> particular subject.  how do i move this all to mail mate?

First of all, make sure you understand that MailMate is IMAP only. The 
emails within ON MY MAC are local and not on any IMAP server. This is 
the main problem. To solve it there are various alternative options:

* Use Apple Mail to create a “Filed Email” mailbox within an IMAP 
account and move the emails to that mailbox (by default MailMate uses 
the name “Archive” for a mailbox with the same purpose, but you can 
name it whatever you want). MailMate should then automatically pick up 
the new mailbox and its messages. Essentially this solution means to 
first upload the messages and then download them again. It is 
inefficient, but it is also the safest approach. It also requires you 
have sufficient space on the server.

* Use the “File ▸ Import Messages” menu item in MailMate to import 
the messages directly from the mail folder used by Apple Mail. It is 
somewhere in `~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-.../...`.

* Use a different application for long term archival if you only want 
the messages offline. I know some users like Mail Steward, but I haven't 
tried it myself.

The first option is best, because it'll also keep any keywords on the 
messages such as whether a message has been seen, answered, flagged, 
marked as junk, etc.

Thanks for trying out MailMate!

Kind regards,

Benny