[MlMt] Question about re-installing MM—Do I lose my IMAP mailboxes in MM?

[Ken Pope]

Did not know that.  Will disable & see if that does the trick.  Again: 
Thank you so much.

On 27 Jan 2021, at 13:09, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> I'm mostly out of ideas, but have you disabled SpamSieve on the
> older laptop? You should not have it active on both at once. (If
> you use both computers, see the SpamSieve documentation on
> remote operation.)
>
> On 27 Jan 2021, at 12:47, Ken Pope wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much for such a clear & detailed explanation.
>>
>> What baffles me is that I migrated everything from a 2018 MacBook Pro 
>> to an M1 13-inch MacBook Pro and have changed nothing.  The set-ups 
>> are identical.  Yet while the MM/SpamSieve combo on the 2018 
>> continues to work perfectly (I just got it out & checked), the 
>> MM/SpamSieve combo on the M1 doesn’t work at all.  Have tried 
>> everything I can think of, yet nothing seems to help.  Any 
>> suggestions greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>> On 26 Jan 2021, at 21:44, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>
>>> On 26 Jan 2021, at 18:52, Ken Pope wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have tried all sorts of way to fix a problem w/ SpamSieve since I 
>>>> moved to an M1 13-inch MacBook Pro (checked everything: SpamSieve 
>>>> correctly labels spam but spam ends up in inbox & legit mail ends 
>>>> up in junk mailbox) and can’t think of anything else to do but 
>>>> uninstall both MM & Spamsieve & install new versions of both.
>>>>
>>>> My question is: If I completely uninstall MM, download a clean 
>>>> version & reinstall it, do I lose all the IMAP mailboxes I’ve 
>>>> created in MM?
>>>
>>> The IMAP mailboxes are on the server; it will neither know nor care
>>> that you've done anything to the client. However…
>>>
>>> Smart mailboxes are part of your MailMate configuration. If you wipe
>>> that out—more on that below—you'll lose them.
>>>
>>> It strikes me as extremely likely that your problem is 
>>> configuration, not
>>> the executables. Deleting and reinstalling the applications won't 
>>> fix that.
>>> Wiping out your configuration files would likely do more to fix your
>>> problem, but of course you'd have to recreate a lot. The question is
>>> what the issue might be.
>>>
>>> The obvious place to look is any rules—or any rules on any other 
>>> devices
>>> you have that talk to that IMAP server. For that matter, in some 
>>> situations
>>> there are server-side rules. Generally speaking, having more than 
>>> one
>>> computer that can touch the same messages is a recipe for trouble.
>>>
>>>
>>>         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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