[MlMt] MailMate's Only Seeing a Fraction of My Mail

[jimleff.ny@gmail.com]

Benny, 
Thanks for the reply.  I can imagine the headache Google’s craziness must cause you as a dev!

I have an idea that’s either clever or naive. What if I get myself a non-gmail email account, and have all future gmail forward there, and also have gmail refer all previous mail there via POP...and then use THAT address with MailMate?

Gmail seems to be good about forwarding/downloading to other addresses than it is about accommodating email clients, so I’m hoping this strategy might play to Google's strength.



Note that MailMate currently only counts days of active use (sending messages) which appears to provide plenty of time for most trial users. 
I didn’t realize that. Super smart. I should be fine. Thanks.



JIM



On 12 May 2015, at 3:19, jimleff.ny at gmail.com wrote:

> I have 94,349 emails in my gmail account, but MailMate thinks I only 
> have 1132. How can I get MailMate to see all my mail?

The short answer is to enable “[Gmail]/All Mail” in the IMAP account 
settings (via “Edit Subscriptions”, but unfortunately it is more or 
less required that you understand how Gmail works compared to regular 
IMAP accounts.

Currently, the best resources for that is [the 
manual](http://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup#gmail) and a [blog 
post](http://blog.freron.com/2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-mailmate/).

In short, the problem with “[Gmail]/All Mail” is that it also 
contains emails found in other mailboxes including the Inbox and sent 
messages (but not junk/trash). MailMate tries to hide this fact by 
hiding any messages in “[Gmail]/All Mail” which already exist in 
some other mailbox. I believe this works, but I'm still worried about 
its performance which is why it's not enabled by default.

A Gmail account with 100K messages is relatively big. Note that it could 
take a while to synchronize the account -- you might even run into the 
problem of Google throttling your connection (depending on the average 
message size).

> (Also, Benny, if you’re reading along: I downloaded Mailmate a few 
> weeks ago, but am only now getting around to checking it out. Is there 
> any way to extend the demo period?)

If there was then I wouldn't state it on a public mailing list ;-) Note 
that MailMate currently only counts days of active use (sending 
messages) which appears to provide plenty of time for most trial users. 
In fact, I'm some times contacted by users thinking they have lost their 
purchased license key when in fact they never actually bought one :-)

But let me know by direct email if you need a longer trial period.

Thanks for trying out MailMate.

-- 
Benny
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