[MlMt] Moving from Apple Mail to Mailmate

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 26 Aug 2020, at 20:07, Charlie Garrison wrote:

> 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.
>
One more thing. If some of your folders are primarily archival,
you can configure them for "Manual sync". In that case, Mailmate
does not download them from the IMAP server unless needed.


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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