[MlMt] Uh-oh. Imap just bit me...

[Seebs]

On 3 Nov 2013, at 3:29, Alasdair Muckart wrote:

> If you want fetch-and-store rather than server-stored you want 
> something like POP rather than IMAP. Fetchmail to a local store you 
> access using IMAP and MailMate would act the way you sound like you 
> need and could be backed up locally.

That's basically what I've been doing, only I was keeping the "local 
store" on a server in my house.

> Do you use time machine at all? If you do, then you should have 
> backups of your MailMate cached messages in your local backups even if 
> you don't have them on the server backups.

Conveniently, I do. In fact, this machine is backed up fairly regularly 
to three different drives. Except, of course, that because I was running 
around like a headless chicken without my email stuff, it turned out 
that one of the drives had gotten unplugged from the hub (this machine 
is a laptop, so it moves around a bunch) a couple of days ago. But luck 
was with me, and I have backups of the cache of that server's messages 
that are newer than the last time the server was actually up.

... MailMate is now importing them into the new server's IMAP folders, 
which is looking like it will take 3-4 more hours.

-s