[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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