[MlMt] [OT-ish] Local Dovecot - step-by-step instructions or plug-and-play .app/VM/container

Robert Brenstein mailmate at learning-insights.eu
Wed Feb 20 15:04:31 EST 2019


if this is a one-time browsing need, get the demo of Mail Archiver X and 
import your MBOX files into a single archive or each into its own 
archive. Then you can browse them basically like in a mail program.

On 20 Feb 2019, at 18:54, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I find myself in possession of a bunch of MBOX files that I’d like 
> to browse using MailMate, without having to upload them to one of my 
> IMAP accounts. The recommendation for this seems to be to install 
> Dovecot on my Mac and import them there.
>
> I got about half an hour into tweaking config files and squinting at 
> error messages and realized that this is not the best use of my time.
>
> So, does anyone have step-by-step instructions for setting up Dovecot 
> for this kind of use?
>
> Or better yet, does anyone know of a plug-and-play .app/VM/container 
> that runs a self-contained Dovecot?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -sam
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