[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Bill Cole]

On 2 Dec 2018, at 6:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 29 Nov 2018, at 16:03, Annamarie wrote:
>
>> Finally forced by Mojave to buy a new computer - I love my 2011 
>> MacBook Air. !
>>
>> Anyways I want to make sure I do this right. MM is set up with all my 
>> accounts but I want my signatures and smart folders.  I think that if 
>> I copy the entire MM folder from the ~/library/Application Support  
>> I’ll end up duplicating emails?
>
> No, but I still think the following is better:
>
>> Can I simply copy the various .plists? I see
>> Blacklist.plist
>> Identities.plist
>> Mailboxes.plist
>> Signatures.plist
>> Sources.plist
>> Submission.plist
>> Tags.plist
>>
>> I probably just want blacklist, mailboxes and signatures? Yes. 
>> Anything else I should do? I only found one article from 2014 in the 
>> archives.
>
> Just take all of the `.plist` files. Then you don't need to configure 
> the accounts and all emails are fetched from the servers building a 
> new database in MailMate.
>
> You won't get the `defaults` (which also means Preferences) changes. 
> That can be done by copying the following file:
>
> 	~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist
>
> But I believe this has to be done before launching MailMate for the 
> first time (because the system caches it in memory).

An alternative approach is to use the 'export' and 'import' subcommands 
to 'defaults' command, which assures that you get precisely what the 
system believes to be the current defaults.

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Bill Cole