[MlMt] Questions from prospective new user

[Fredrik Jonsson]

Andrew Buc 2016-03-25 3:52 wrote:

> At this point, I would think that I could start using MailMate. Does 
> this sound reasonable, and am I overlooking anything? Thank you.

Make sure your e-mail account have enough space to store all your mail. 
With IMAP all the mail is stored on the mail server and your e-mail 
client (MailMate in this case) have a copy that is stored locally on 
your computer.

Apple Mail can also do IMAP. My suggestion would be to add the IMAP 
account to Apple Mail and deactivate (do not delete!) the POP account. 
Then you can transfer/copy all the mail in to the IMAP account with drag 
and drop in Apple Mail.

With all your mail now on the server in an IMAP account you may use any 
number of IMAP clients to access it. All of them will see the same 
mails. You can set up the IMAP-account on your phone, other computers 
etc., they will all see the same mail.

You may keep your folder structure in the IMAP account but if you are 
going to use MailMate my tips is to just dump all the mail in the 
"Archive" folder.

One of MailMates best features is its "Smart folders" and they are 
really smart. Apple Mail and the Finder has smart folders as well, but 
they are not as powerful. You can see Smart folders as saved searches.

I use them exclusively to organise  my mail. I set up smart folders that 
displays mail from/to specific senders, domains, mailing lists, projects 
etc.

With real folders you must decide where to store a mail. With smart 
folders in can be displayed in multiple places, e.g both in a personal 
smart folder and in a project smart folder.

Fredrik