[MlMt] Where are IMAP messages stored?
Benny Kjær Nielsen
mailinglist at freron.com
Mon Oct 9 05:54:03 EDT 2017
On 9 Oct 2017, at 0:32, Bill Cole wrote:
> 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
I should also add that this hack is problematic because users
accidentally delete or move this folder which makes MailMate behave in
unexpected ways. I've got it on my todo to make MailMate detect this
problem and at least warn the user about it.
--
Benny
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