[MlMt] Seen/read status not preserved when importing local folder

[Sherif Soliman]

On 26 Jul 2014, at 11:40, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 26 Jul 2014, at 0:21, Sherif Soliman wrote:
>
>> I'm helping a friend import her old email into MailMate. She has some 
>> inboxes of exported messages (On My Mac) from Mail.app that she 
>> wanted to import into MailMate.
>>
>> The inboxes have lots of unread as well as read messages. However, 
>> when we imported those inboxes into MailMate (using File > Import 
>> Messages...  > Select folder + Use destination for all messages), all 
>> the imported emails were unread.
>>
>> Why is the seen/unseen status lost?
>
> Because this information (and other flags) are not saved with the 
> messages when exporting from Apple Mail.
>

ugh Apple Mail

>> Is there a way to preserve the read/unread status of all those 
>> messages when importing?
>
> I usually recommend setting up the same IMAP account in MailMate and 
> Apple Mail. Then move the messages by moving the On My Mac mailboxes 
> to the IMAP account in Apple Mail. MailMate automatically fetches the 
> mailbox and its messages when synchronizing the account.
>
> This not only preserves the read-state, but also other flags such as 
> $Answered, $Forwarded, \Flagged, $Junk, and $NotJunk.
>

We did that and it worked quite well. Thank you!

> Note that MailMate does not support local mailboxes like those in On 
> My Mac. This means that MailMate would be uploading the messages to an 
> IMAP account anyways.
>

Yes I knew that part. My friend had moved to Fastmail so she had enough 
quota to re-upload those local mailboxes and keep them on the server.

Thanks again.

Sherif