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

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 13 May 2015, at 0:16, jimleff.ny at gmail.com wrote:

> 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,

That would work. You can still use the SMTP server of Gmail (and your 
Gmail address) although with the side-effect of Google putting a copy of 
the sent emails in the Gmail sent mailbox (a non-standard “feature” 
of Gmail).

> and also have gmail refer all previous mail there via POP...

Not sure what you mean by that, but you can certainly move existing 
emails from the Gmail IMAP account to your alternative IMAP account 
using MailMate (and then remove the Gmail account from MailMate).

(One caveat when using forwarding is that you cannot see when/if Gmail 
is down.)

For inspiration: 
http://blog.freron.com/2013/alternative-email-providers/

-- 
Benny