[MlMt] deselecting a jillion imap mailboxes

Randall Gellens mailmate at randy.pensive.org
Thu Jan 18 19:16:52 EST 2018


At 8:17 AM +0100 12/3/16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

>  On 3 Dec 2016, at 1:10, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>  the imap server for ietf mailing lists has 3.7 jillion imap mailboxes.
>  i want to deselct them all and then only select three. any chance?
>
>  never mind. the checkbox down at the bottom, Ignore Server Subscription
>  State, seems to be the trick.
>
>  ok, the ietf archive seems to sing mailmate on a 16g late 2014 mbp 13.
>  could someone else give it a try.
>
>  MailMate is a fully offline IMAP client which 
> means that MailMate would try to fetch all 
> emails of all mailboxes subscribed. This 
> doesn't work well for huge IMAP archives which 
> were probably only intended to be accessed 
> using an online IMAP email client (with little 
> or no local cache).
>
>  imap.ietf.org:993
>  For anonymous access, use username="anonymous", 
> and provide your email address as a password
>
>  If you think the issue is not related to the 
> size of the mailbox(es) you try to subscribe 
> then I can try it out.
>
>  I hope this helps clear up the issue.

I'm confused.  How do you set MailMate to only 
pay attention to 3 of the jagillion mailboxes at 
imap.ietf.org?


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