[MlMt] Migrating from Postbox

[Vincent Acheson]

Interesting - I find the use of a "non-standard" storage system
intriguing, but I'm no programmer..... I handle archiving via
Devonthink. The "mail archive" database lives on a fileserver.

I've now successfully imported one account from Postbox incl all
messages. My next challenge is working out how / if I can make effective
use of MlMt for my access to / management of my wife's work account (we
work together). She never does anything to manage the ever-growing pile
of guff in her inbox - 901 unread. I'm hoping I can work out a way to
sort the wheat from the chaff using smart mailboxes(!!). The counter
customisations are looking really attractive right now!

Vincent


Kai Großjohann wrote:
> I was quite unhappy about MailMate's lack of support for local
> mailboxes. But then I thought I should not complain, and so what I did
> was to install Dovecot on my Mac using Homebrew. Then I created an
> account in my old email program and moved the messages into the local
> Dovecot installation from there. Then I quit the old email program and I
> began using MailMate.
> 
> Note that this means (I think) that the messages are on disk twice, once
> in the local Dovecot installation and once in MailMate's disk cache. Oh,
> well.
> 
> Kai
> 
> On 11 Jun 2015, at 14:59, Vincent Acheson wrote:
> 
>     I have over 17gb of imap data spread across 3 accounts, held locally on
>     two different Macs, one running Postbox 3, the other Postbox 4 (don't
>     bother!).
> 
>     Given Postbox's Thunderbird roots and data structures, is there a way to
>     get MailMate to import the mbox files from Postbox?
> 
>     Thanks!
>     Vincent
> 
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