[MlMt] Moving from Apple Mail to Mailmate

[Dan Romanchik]

I hit the brick wall with Apple Mail in February. It slowed my 
two-year-old iMac down to the point of unusability.

There are two issues that I see with using MailMate vs. using Apple 
Mail. The first is that MM organizes emails differently than Mail. When 
you want to file an email, you move it to Archive and tag it 
appropriately to find it or set up the “smart mailbox” appropriately 
to find it. For example, I’ve set up a smart mailbox named “amateur 
radio” and when I want to save an amateur radio related email, I tag 
it with the “amateur radio” tag, then move it to Archive.

The second is that MM does not keep emails on your machine. Instead, it 
leaves them on the server. If you save a lot of email, you could run out 
of space on the server, as I’ve done already.

Once you realize that this is how MM works, you can make it work pretty 
much like Mail. And, it is definitely faster than Apple Mail.

Regards,

**Dan Romanchik  |  Technology Writer and Blogger**
www.linkedin.com/in/danromanchik
www.danromanchik.com
734.930.6564
@kb6nu, @danromanchik

On 25 Aug 2020, at 18:20, Antonio Leding wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After many years of using Apple Mail, I have hit a dead-end with 
> regard to both performance and search-ability.  I have always heard 
> great things about Mailmate but because Mail was working well — 
> coupled with a fair bit of inertia — I never took the time to really 
> take a look at MM.
>
> However, due to the issues noted above, I find I am now taking that 
> look and so far, pretty darn’d impressed.  The only issue I’ve 
> really had thus far was not being able to have multiple SMTP servers 
> but after discovering the hidden setting to enable that experimental 
> feature, I now have some of that functionality as well.
>
> So, to all those out there who have done a similar migration, I would 
> like to solicit any feedback (good and bad) you would like to offer 
> someone who is considering the same change.  My core questions would 
> be around performance (I have well over 150k messages across 12 email 
> accounts), reliability, SpamSieve functionality, things you wish 
> you’d known before migrating, etc.
>
> As an FYI, I did check out the Mailmate Mailman archive but didn’t 
> find a lot concerning migrating from Apple Mail…hence this message.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback you share…
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