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

Pete Resnick resnick at episteme.net
Mon Feb 7 09:46:59 EST 2022


On 7 Feb 2022, at 0:50, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:

> 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/>

A simpler approach might be to buy a copy of MailServe. 
<https://cutedgesystems.com>

pr
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