[MlMt] Selectively Restore Account?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 15 Feb 2017, at 23:57, Mark Chapman wrote:

> My regular IMAP mail provider has had a catastrophic hardware failure. 
> Unfortunately, before it went down completely it replaced all my mail 
> with mail from 2013. I am hoping that they have a good backup that 
> will restore everything when the hardware is replaced. However, in the 
> interim I need access to my mail.
>
> I have everything backed up but am uncertain how to selectively 
> restore that one account. I think the mail would be found at:
>
> ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/account
>
> However, I don't think I can just replace the existing directory with 
> the one from backup. How do I go about this?

You need to use “File ▸ Import Messages...” to get the emails into 
the account again. MailMate can then upload the emails to the server. If 
you have some overlap then “Edit ▸ Select Duplicates” might be 
helpful. It selects duplicates and not the originals (the originals are 
assumed to be the messages first seen by MailMate). It only looks at 
`Message-ID` and size, but that should be good enough for most purposes.

You might also want to consider switching IMAP provider.

-- 
Benny
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