[MlMt] Getting started with MailMate

[Martin S Taylor]

Andrew:

You're taking exactly the route I took about a month ago. MailMate has 
some quirks that take a bit of getting used to, but I certainly prefer 
it to Apple Mail, and used in conjunction with FastMail it works well. 
And ditching POP3 is an excellent plan!

The snag you're likely to hit is that MailMate doesn't support mailboxes 
held 'On My Mac' as Apple Mail names it. It can only access mailboxes 
held on an IMAP server such as FastMail. The FastMail server will have a 
fair amount of space set aside for you: the exact amount depends on 
which scheme you pay for. However, if you have masses of old mail 
archived 'On My Mac', you should check that there's room on the FastMail 
server.

When you've ascertained that, you'll have to transfer all your Apple 
Mail folders which are stored 'On My Mac' onto the IMAP server at 
FastMail. You can do this by setting up Apple Mail so that it can access 
the IMAP server at FastMail, and then just dragging the folders from 'On 
My Mac' to FastMail.

When you've done this, you'll be able to see them using MailMate.

Does that make sense? It's hard to judge your level of expertise from 
one posting, so shoot back with any questions.

Martin


On 22 Nov 2020, at 18:42, Andrew Buc wrote:

> Although MailMate doesn’t work with my current POP3 mailbox, I 
> bought a license a few years ago to support development of MailMate. 
> Now I’m close to being ready to start using it, and I’m asking for 
> pointers. I’ve never used an IMAP mail client before. I’m 
> currently using Apple Mail.
>
> A bit of back story: I have my own domain, as you might guess from my 
> address. I have the domain registrar forward all incoming mail to the 
> POP3 mailbox (at my ISP) and to a webmail account I have at 
> fastmail.fm. The webmail account is IMAP, but I’ve been accessing it 
> only through a web browser. The plan is to access the webmail account 
> with MailMate and have it become my primary email. Once this is 
> accomplished, I’ll have my domain registrar forward emails only to 
> the webmail address. I have a comprehensive set of folders (and rules 
> to put mail in them) in Apple Mail. I have only the minimum folders in 
> the webmail account—inbox, sent, trash, drafts, archive. I assume 
> that as I get to work duplicating my current Apple Mail folder 
> structure in MailMate, the corresponding folders will be created in 
> the webmail account.
>
> As a starting point, I want to import certain mailboxes from Apple 
> Mail into MailMate, but not all of them. I plan to leave my legacy 
> Apple Mail database in place. I could theoretically import my entire 
> Apple Mail database into MailMate and then delete the mailboxes I 
> don’t want, but is that the best approach?
>
> I’ll probably have more questions as I move along with this. Thank 
> you.
>
>
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