[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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