[MlMt] Offline directories

[Vincent Noel]

Hello benny,

Am I right then in thinking that moving messages out of the inbox into an
Archive folder does not help mailmate ? Any message has the same load on
mailmate, whatever its location on the imap server?

Is there any way to help mailmate then, apart from deleting the messages
altogether? If I intend to keep very old messages (say older than 10 years)
for reference, what is the best way to do it?

Cheers,
V.

Le mercredi 13 mars 2013, Benny Kjær Nielsen a écrit :

> 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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