[MlMt] migrating from apple mail to mail mate - prospective user

[Robert Brenstein]

On 7 Feb 2022, at 1:33, mailmate--- via mailmate wrote:

> > How can I archive mail from IMAP mailboxes to somewhere else free so 
> I don’t exceed my free storage allocation in the mail server?
>
> Either
>
> ```
> Message > Move to mailbox…
> ```
>
> and put them into another IMAP account. Or
> ```
> Commands > Export > …
> ```
> to store the Emails on your local storage. Of course that would move 
> them outside of MailMate. You could open the files using MailMate, but 
> they won’t be searched.
>
> You could create a „dummy IMAP account“, with invalid credentials. 
> It will then always be shown as offline, but you could copy mails into 
> it. It’s hacky and isn’t guaranteed to work as intended. Be extra 
> careful with it. For example, don’t *move* mails there, only copy.
>
> The secure way would be to run a real IMAP server on your machine, to 
> which MailMate can connect locally. I haven’t tried myself, but 
> running [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) in a container should 
> work.
>
> E.


Using EagleFiler, Mail Steward or Mail Archiver X are some of further 
options.
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