[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 3 Dec 2018, at 18:09, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> 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.

Well, that depends on the network connection and the IMAP servers 
involved.

I'm mainly recommending the “clean start” approach to avoid 
potential issues with a custom location of the Messages folder and any 
issues arising from restoring from a backup (which is not 100% reliable 
because MailMate doesn't control the order in which files are backed 
up). (A clean start also ensures that the database is as small as it can 
be.)

-- 
Benny
https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/