[MlMt] Moving from Apple Mail to Mailmate

[Eric Sharakan]

On 26 Aug 2020, at 13:42, Antonio Leding wrote:

> Hello all — Thank you very much for your responses…the feedback is 
> very helpful.  I also use C-Command’s SpamSieve and EagleFiler 
> products as both are phenomenal at what they do.  Talking specifically 
> about EagleFiler, I personally looked at several different methods and 
> apps for email archiving — DevonThink, MailSteward, Evernote, local 
> exports, and even a custom database — and for me, EF was the best 
> all around option.
>
> 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?

This is an intentional design decision made by Benny.  Whenever a 
request has come up to add local storage, Benny has steadfastly said 
"no".

I'll let him expound on his thoughts regarding this.

-Eric

> 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.
>
> Again, thanks for your feedback and please feel free to keep it 
> coming…
>
>
>
>
>> On Aug 26, 2020, at 8:20 AM, Eric Sharakan <esharakan at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 26 Aug 2020, at 10:55, Philip Paeps wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-08-26 06:20:56 (+0800), Antonio Leding wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I wouldn't worry about performance or reliability too much with only 
>> 150,000 messages. There are people on this mailing list with millions 
>> of messages and MailMate "just copes". :) (I have just shy of 2 
>> million messages and I have one mailbox with just over 150,000 
>> messages in it. I know that I am not the biggest email hoarder here.)
>> 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.
>>
>> If I were to venture a guess ... I'd say it's pretty uneventful for 
>> most people. :)
>>
>> These are some functional differences I encountered between MM and 
>> Apple Mail:
>>
>> No POP3 support
>> No built-in spam filtering
>> No local, "on your Mac" mailboxes. Everything is stored on the 
>> server.
>> Composing rich emails is done with Markdown
>> For me, the first item was a non-issue. To address the second, I use 
>> SpamSieve (Apple Mail's junk filtering had really begun failing me 
>> anyway). For the third, I bought EagleFiler to archive older emails I 
>> had been storing locally with Apple Mail.
>>
>> SpamSieve and EagleFiler are both excellent products from C-Command 
>> Software (https://c-command.com/ <https://c-command.com/> )
>>
>> Finally, composing emails with Markdown took some getting used to but 
>> I now really like it. One of the (few) complaints I sometimes read 
>> about MM is that the Markdown processor used is a bit old and crufty, 
>> and missing some features.
>>
>> All in all I'm an extremely happy MM customer, and simply can't 
>> imagine ever going back to Apple Mail.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> -- 
>> Philip Paeps
>> Senior Reality Engineer
>> Alternative Enterprises
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