[MlMt] Moving from Apple Mail to Mailmate

[Charlie Garrison]

On 27 Aug 2020, at 3:42, Antonio Leding wrote:

> I must admit that while I have already setup a few accounts in MM, I 
> had not yet noticed that in-app local message storage was not 
> available (just hadn’t tried it yet) so thank you for educating me 
> there.  With that in mind, does anyone know why this wasn’t 
> implemented?  Was this intentional, too much work, etc?  Also, is 
> there sufficient user desire for implementing in-app local storage? 
>  I admit that as I write, this, I am forced to consider that maybe 
> not having this feature is a blessing in disguise because it probably 
> forces some of us to use a more reliable archival process and\or not 
> keeping large amounts of mail on the server.

The local -vs- server storage issue may need some clarification. 
MailMate doesn't have local __only__ storage. MailMate __does__ store a 
__copy__ of messages locally. So if you are offline, you still have 
access to all your messages. You can even move messages to different 
mailboxes; when MailMate reconnects to the IMAP server it will sync all 
the changes (both local and from server).

The "authoritative" storage is on the server, with "cache" storage 
locally. For me, that's best of both worlds.

To reduce the amount of server storage, like others on this list, I use 
both local Dovecot and archival outside MM.

-cng

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     Charlie Garrison                   <charlie at garrison.com.au>
     Garrison Computer Services      <http://www.garrison.com.au>
     PO Box 380
     Tumbarumba NSW 2653  Australia
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