[MlMt] Offline directories

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 13 Mar 2013, at 19:23, Gustavo Daniel Villarreal wrote:

> I am on my final days of evaluation of MailMate and I really like a 
> lot of things and I have decided to buy it,

Thanks for trying out MailMate. I hope you'll still consider using 
MailMate even though the answers below are probably now what you were 
hoping for.

> but I don't see an option to store offline mail, eg., local folders.

Correct, there is no such option.

> Since Mountain Lion, Mail.app has been constantly using 30-40% CPU, 
> I've seen this issue on more machines than just mine, and it doesn't 
> look like it will go away soon. MailMate so far has not had this 
> problem, but it also doesn't have my ~30GB of archived offline mail 
> directories…

The performance bottleneck in MailMate is the number of messages and not 
the size of the messages. In other words, if you have a million messages 
in those ~30GB then MailMate is going to be worse than Apple Mail. If 
you have 100K messages then it should be ok (I only have ~30K messages 
myself). I think the most I have been told to work in MailMate is 400K 
messages, but I believe that requires both a fast machine and plenty of 
memory. Part of the reason for this is that MailMate puts all messages 
in one big pool which means that messages you rarely access still hurt 
performance. (Some day I'll hopefully have time to look into more 
optimizations.)

> So far I have not seen an option that allows for offline mail as a 
> destination for imported mail or if there's an option to create local 
> folders on the Mac (I've read the manual online) so I open Mail when I 
> need to search beyond what I have on IMAP.

This is probably also the best strategy for now. Personally I would 
consider just having the old emails stored as plain text messages and 
then use `grep` in the Terminal to search them. And then I would 
probably make it easier to review messages in MailMate without importing 
them although this is also possible [using Quick 
Look](http://www.macworld.com/article/1131923/qlterminal.html).

> Does MailMate only work with online IMAP stores?

MailMate only works with IMAP, but the IMAP server can be located 
anywhere including on the same machine as MailMate.

> I could buy the Server app for Mac OS X and import my offline messages 
> to its IMAP server, but it sounds like I might be overdoing it.

A major problem is then the duplication of messages since MailMate 
insists on fetching all messages in full. In particular when you have 
30GB.

-- 
Benny
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