[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Robert Brenstein]

Benny or anyone else…
Why should we copy just the plists and prefs and refetch all the mails? 
If I follow the recommendation below, that what we should do. However, 
with 100k mails in dozen IMAP accounts, this will take a while. I would 
rather copy the entire MailMate folder from the Application Support and 
com.freron.MailMate.plist from Preferences to another computer. Direct 
copy is fast.

Robert

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).
>
> --
> Benny
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