[MlMt] mailmate Digest, Vol 20, Issue 3

[Tom Gillett]

thank you for incredibly fast response.  i am studying mail steward and 
then will pick best route forward.  on another front, o you know it 
mailtags is compatible with mail mate?
tom

On 14 Nov 2012, at 7:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:

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> From: Tom Gillett <tfgillett at gmail.com>
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> hi there
> 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?
> tom
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:46:45 +0100
> From: "Benny Kj?r Nielsen" <mailinglist at freron.com>
> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] importing
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> On 13 Nov 2012, at 13:36, Tom Gillett wrote:
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>> 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!
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> Kind regards,
>
> Benny
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