[MlMt] Offline directories

[Vincent Noel]

Ooh, I hadn't thought of that.

So I could move extremely old emails to their own imap folder, then 
unsubscribe from that folder,
and the emails won't be counted in mailmate's database. That could work.

Thanks a bunch
Cheers,
V.

On 14 Mar 2013, at 17:10, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2013, at 16:42, Vincent Noel wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes, at least for some aspects of MailMate. If you have complicated or 
> many smart mailboxes based on Inbox or Archived then it might make a 
> difference.
>
>> 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?
>
> Many smart mailboxes are based on “All Messages”. It might help to 
> use the trick for All Messages described in the manual: 
> http://manual.mailmate-app.com/hidden_preferences.html#performance
>
> But part of the problem are the header indexes which are not going to 
> be smaller if doing the above. If you have good online access to the 
> messages then you could move the old messages to its own IMAP mailbox 
> and then unsubscribe it. In that case you should of course worry about 
> backup if you do not trust your IMAP provider to handle that.
>
> -- 
> Benny
> ``