[MlMt] Is there a way to not store email locally?

[Bill Cole]

On 2 Feb 2021, at 21:50, Brandon Schneider wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> While cleaning up my drive, I noticed my MailMate folder has kept 
> every single message that is in my Archive folder in IMAP. Which is 
> about 9 gigs. Is there an option to tell MailMate to *not* download 
> any messages locally like this? Just keep them all in the IMAP server 
> and look them up when needed?

Nope.

There's not a good way for a mail client to support the search & Smart 
Mailbox features of MailMate without keeping the whole mailstore 
locally.

It's a reasonable choice to exclude 
/Users/dad/Library/ApplicationSupport/MailMate/Messages from backups, 
especially for backups like TimeMachine that scan whole directories if 
one item changes.


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