[MlMt] Moving from Apple Mail to Mailmate

[Alex Abdo]

On 26 Aug 2020, at 16:24, Michael Nietzold wrote:

> If you really need a local storage:
>
>  - how about running a local imap server on your Mac?

This is what I do (dovecot), but as someone who isn’t as technically 
savvy as it seems many or most people on this list are, it was a bit of 
a learning curve. And every time I have to reinstall (new laptop, etc.), 
I cross my fingers and hope it works again, knowing that I’m not sure 
I could really debug any problems.

This is the guide I followed: 
https://xdeb.org/post/2014/03/07/running-dovecot-as-a-local-only-imap-server-on-os-x/

That said, dovecot has been working great. I do wonder whether it ends 
up wasting space by duplicating the mail stored on my laptop, because I 
assume that MailMate retrieves all of the emails from dovecot and 
creates another local cache?

One nice thing about having a local IMAP server, though, is that it 
frees you up to once again use multiple clients without worrying about 
which one has your locally stored emails. You can just point all of them 
to your local IMAP server.