[MlMt] Where are IMAP messages stored?

[Bill Cole]

On 8 Oct 2017, at 13:14, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed today that my TimeMachine Backup took seriously long time. 
> After checking the TimeMachine Logs I found that there is a directory 
> in my home directory where now IMAP messages are stored, and not in 
> ~/Library (or similar). I.e. messages are stored in 
> ~/com.freron.MailMate/
>
> When did this change?

I expect it is different for each user... For me it was 2017-08-03, 
apparently

> Is something screwed up in my setup?

No. This is the result of the choices in the "Messages Folder" section 
of the Preferences->General pane. Spotlight searches in the Finder will 
not show any results inside ~/Library/Application Support/ by default, 
so to be searchable in the Finder, the "real" Messages folder has to be 
somewhere visible. The "normal" location is now a symbolic link:

silverclam:~ wkc$ ls -l ./Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/Messages
lrwx------  1 wkc  staff  39 Aug  3 21:28 ./Library/Application 
Support/MailMate/Messages -> /Users/wkc/com.freron.MailMate/Messages