[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Bill Cole]

On 6 Dec 2018, at 11:36, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> 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.

I tried that. It was ugly, because I used 'rsync' without the flag to 
replicate extended attributes, which MM uses to store a message UID. I 
was fortunate to have been watching how the whole process worked...

So *MAYBE* you can make it work but you should make absolutely certain 
that you replicate extended attributes and when you fire up MM 
afterwards, WATCH what MM does and be prepared to kill it and work out 
any issues you have.

I can't imagine Benny recommending mail cache replication, given the 
risks that it carries.