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

[Fredrik Jonsson]

mailmate--- via mailmate 2022-02-07 1:33 wrote:

> 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.

I have done this for many years. If you are comfortable with running your own services it works really well.

Here is an old, but updated, post on how to set it up on macOS. I'm running this setup on macOS Monterey 12.2 at the moment.

<https://xdeb.org/post/2014/running-dovecot-as-a-local-only-imap-server-on-os-x/>

Fredrik