[MlMt] Updating account information made MailMate (re)download *all* email

[Adam Liter]

Thanks for the response and clarification, Benny. Good to know about the `Messages` folder.

I'll go ahead and do a fresh install, then.

-Adam

> On Jul 25, 2017, at 09:45, Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailinglist at freron.com> wrote:
> 
> On 24 Jul 2017, at 23:34, Adam Liter wrote:
> 
> FWIW, the sluggishness seems to be triggered by talking to the FastMail servers. I quit MailMate and reopened in order to be able to compose the email that I just sent. As soon as it started sending, MailMate became really sluggish. As I write this email, it takes about two-three seconds for each keystroke to register, sometimes longer.
> 
> I think that's because MailMate is looking for emails which have mysteriously gone away. (Deleting emails in the database is distributed over time and therefore this can go on for a long time if a lot of emails have disappeared from disk.)
> 
> On 24 Jul 2017, at 17:30, Adam Liter wrote:
> About a year later, I finally got around to setting up 2FA with FastMail and using app specific passwords. Because of the experiences that others mentioned in this thread, I ended up deleting my previous FastMail IMAP account in MailMate as well as deleting the messages in `~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/`.
> 
> You shouldn't have done that last part. Never let anything but MailMate remove or add any files in the Messages folder. It is to be considered to be a private database which is just saved in a very readable format/hierarchy.
> 
> I'm probably going to reinstall MailMate and see if starting fresh helps, as mentioned in this thread.
> 
> That's unfortunately also the only way to fix it now. You can keep the .plist files to make it easier (in ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/).
> 
> However, I wanted mention this in case there's anything I could do to help debug this, Benny, while I'm still experiencing the problem.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Benny
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