[MlMt] Moving from Apple Mail to Mailmate

[Antonio Leding]

Hi Charlie,

I thought about this a bit more and in reality, the way I handled messages with Apple Mail isn’t functionally much different from the way it would work with MM...

With Apple Mail, I save message to a variety of local mailboxes basically organized by topic.  I did this in an effort to have searching and locating messages as efficient as possible.  So, with MM, I would probably just use more smart mailboxes (I already use 10 or so) in lieu of the local mailboxes I currently have now.  Then I could search within those smart mailboxes for desired content the exact same way I would search the local mailboxes.

My main concern would be performance but based on what I’ve read from the community here, that probably isn't really that much of an issue…

Aside from the above, I could use something like EagleFiler for all of the mail I used to have in the local folders which actually is probably a better solution anyway — after 8+ years of using Apple Mail search, I have concluded that it truly sucks...


> On Aug 27, 2020, at 1:47 AM, Charlie Clark <charlie at begeistert.org> wrote:
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> On 26 Aug 2020, at 22:51, Antonio Leding wrote:
> 
>> I can see this as a desired option if one wants all of their mail on the local machine…but I have a different use-case…
>> 
>> I presume many users do the same thing I do which is that some or most of their mail is on the server and then some is stored locally.  I’m not arguing that one method is better than any other — I’m just stating how I happen to manage my email…
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean. MailMate, along with many IMAP clients, keeps a cache of mail locally and you can take folders offline to prevent synching. With a protocol like IMAP you have to weigh up whether you want to synchronise and, if so, which is likely to be the canonical source. If not you should look at an archive system.
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> Charlie
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