[MlMt] Probable New User with POP Question

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 23 Nov 2018, at 8:51, Jack Stewart wrote:

> I'm liking most of what I have read about Mailmate and want to use it 
> but I am completely inexperienced with IMAP, have no good friends who 
> use it, and am wondering:
>     1) What transition problems from POP to IMAP will I encounter?

Since you have used POP I assume that you have your emails stored 
locally, IMAP (usually) stores your messages on the server. So you will 
probably have to export your emails from your POP client to mbox files 
and then import them into MailMate. If the messages imported are stored 
on the server (if you use MailMate they are unless you install a mail 
server locally on you Mac) then you need to have the storage on your 
server to do this.

>     2) What is not to like about IMAP compared to POP?

Probably several things but there are also things to like (simple 
migration between clients for example).

> (e.g. Will I be able to easily retain my existing 500 mailboxes with 
> their present contents?)

If they live locally (unless you have set some "leave on server" flag in 
your mail client) you probably need to do some manual work.

= jem