[MlMt] Ideas to reduce the footprint of MailMate

[Guillaume Barrette]

Hi all!

First, thanks Travis, Bill and Randall for your insight on how IMAP 
works. I think that would have been long and demanding to scan every 
email when syncing, so I'm glad this is not the case

Thanks Patrik for your workflow regarding your procedure to archive your 
emails, I'll keep this as well for when I need to move my emails out of 
MM.

As I said, at the moment I can live with the disk space + RAM + MailMate 
general performance while working with it since I don't find it that 
slow. I know it would be snappier while searching and doing operations, 
but I think I'll investigate a little more to see if I can find the 
cause of the high download bandwidth.

To give you more inputs, yesterday MailMate downloaded for 2.1gb of 
data.
You can see a screenshot taken at the end of the day before I put my 
laptop to sleep [here](https://d.pr/i/XVsY6a)

Regarding the RAM (I think it's simply because of the number of emails, 
but if anyone find something that doesn't look right regarding the RAM 
or anything else, please let me know!);

- [Screenshot from Activity Monitor](https://d.pr/i/UEw5dy)

- From the "top" terminal command:

```
PID    COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH   #WQ  #PORT MEM    PURG   CMPRS  
PGRP  PPID  STATE    BOOSTS           %CPU_ME %CPU_OTHRS UID  FAULTS    
COW      MSGSENT    MSGRECV    SYSBSD     SYSMACH    CSW         PAGEINS 
  IDLEW      POWE
24238  MailMate     1.4  77:01.88 25    2    7071  1164M  2088K  736M   
24238 1     sleeping *0[5479]         0.00236 0.00000    501  9284220   
3535     10108349+  2441046+   66702119+  38571993+  31311669+   294676  
  698677+    1.6
```

- From the Instruments application:

```
Process ID	Process Name		Responsible Process	User Name			% CPU	CPU Time	 
# Threads	Memory	  Kind			Sudden Termination	Sandbox	Restricted	App 
Nap	Idle Wake Ups	Disk Writes (B)	Disk Reads (B)	
24238		 MailMate (24238)	n/a	       		 GuillaumeBarrette	2.1%	 77.11 
min	26		   1.13 GiB	Intel (64 bit)	No					No			No		No		1,739,433		639.85 
MiB		 2.40 GiB	
```

So, I'll keep investigating the bandwidth and see if I find a solution 
(or do you think I should fill a bug report?)

Thanks again everyone for your inputs, this is really appreciated!

Best,

--
Guillaume

On 10 May 2020, at 1:07, Patrik Fältström via mailmate wrote:

> On 9 May 2020, at 16:45, Guillaume Barrette wrote:
>
>> So, I think my best way to reduce most of it would be to move a lot 
>> of my emails to a new submailbox that I will unsubscribe from 
>> MailMate. So my question, is this the only solution?
>
> FWIW, your usage is MUCH smaller than mine. If I had only your 
> situation, I would not start doing what you are doing...  :-) :-) :-)
>
> That said, your plan is exactly what I have implemented.
>
> What I have is a virtual mailbox ("To Archive") which include all 
> email that is older than one year, with sub mailboxes which is "one 
> month per sub mailbox".
>
> Then I move all mail which is in these "To Archive" sub mailboxes to 
> mailboxes on this separate account which only have this older mail.
>
> Two important things:
>
> - The actual move, the archiving, is something I do manually
>
> - I do *NOT* move mail that I have flags on, those stay
>
> Implement as follows:
>
> 1. Create a virtual mailbox "The Mail" that includes all mail that is 
> to be archived, for example the following mailboxes. No rules for this 
> mailbox. This is btw the one you base all actions on (all other 
> mailboxes) instead of "All Mail". For example "Unread", "Default 
> mailbox for searches" etc.
>
> 1.1. Mail NOT in the archive itself (in that account)
> 1.2. Mail NOT in Draft
> 1.3. Mail NOT in Junk
> 1.4. Mail NOT in Deleted Messages
>
> 2. Create the mailbox "To Archive" with the following characteristics 
> (2.2.3 is to not have data for the Apple Notes application be moved 
> away):
>
> 2.1. Act on "The Mail" as the mailbox
> 2.2. Conditions, where all of the following are true:
> 2.2.1. "Date is not within 1 year"
> 2.2.2. "Message is not flagged"
> 2.2.3. "X-Uniform-Type-Identifier" is not com.apple.mail-note
> 2.3. For sub mailboxes set:
> 2.3.1. Have a sub mailbox for each unique value of Date->Month
> 2.3.2. Set name of sub mailbox to "${#date.month}"
>
> Then you create one folder in your archive account which have the same 
> name as the sub mailboxes within "To Archive", open the sub mailbox, 
> select all, and just drag the mail over.
>
> This 2nd account, with the archive you then do not have to for example 
> add on your phone etc. And more importantly, as you act all Mailmate 
> commands and virtual folders on the "The Mail" folder, the speed up 
> with be "a lot".
>
>    Patrik
>
> P.S. FWIW, I get 12-13k messages a month, my MailMate process is 5-6G 
> and I have a total of 2.8 million email messages by now...adding 
> 12-15k per month.
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