[MlMt] Location of Smart Mailbox Rules

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sun Dec 20 17:27:16 EST 2020


On 20 Dec 2020, at 13:12, Bruce Lynn wrote:

> I am running the most recent release of Mailmate. Last week I did a 
> clean install of Big Sur on my Mac. In the process I lost my Mailmate 
> Smart Mailbox rules but I have a TimeMachine backup. I could not find 
> any files that had “rules” or “Smart Mailbox" in the name did 
> find a plist file in ~/Library/Application Support/Mailmate called 
> Mailboxes.plist which I suspect might be the file. My concern is that 
> since the previous install I have added in some mailboxes that I 
> suspect would be deleted if I overwrote this file in my current clean 
> install of MailMate. Any help would be appreciated.

If they're regular maiboxes, there's not a problem; those live on
the IMAP server and will be created on your Mac. If they're smart
mailboxes—yes, that's a problem.


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