[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Robert Brenstein]

Let me piggyback on this thread. My laptop developed hardware issues, so
like OP, I thought to copy the entire MailMate folder from the Application
Support and com.freron.MailMate.plist from Preferences to the temp
computer. Why should  copy just the plists and prefs and refetch all the
mails? With 100k mails in dozen IMAP accounts, this will take a while.

On Sun, December 2, 2018 12:13 pm, 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).
>
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> Benny
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