[MlMt] Moving settings to a new computer from an existing installation

[John Purnell]

Henry, the procedure I described did bring in my all my accounts. The only input from me during the entire process was that I got prompted for new application specific passwords for those accounts that are protected by 2FA on the initial manually initiated sync (my default). Once I created those and inserted them in the dialog boxes the messages from those accounts started to get downloaded. I then left MailMate alone and did other stuff until the sync completed (some time). I then reconciled the mailbox message counts against the old computer (identical). I think an important step on the new machine is not to open MailMate before you do the migration described in the manual, or if you have, to: close MailMate, delete its Application Support folder and the preference list, follow the migration procedure and only then open MailMate. Good luck.


On 2022-02-20, at 09:02 +1300, Henry Seiden <info at techworkspro.com> wrote:

> Thanks, John,
>
> I thought that it would migrate my accounts as well, but alas, no. Nor will it use any accounts installed in OS as “Internet accounts.” I guess you found that or automatically did that process.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Henry Seiden
>
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> On 19 Feb 2022, at 14:22, John Purnell wrote:
>
>> I just completed this successfully yesterday. I followed the instructions at the bottom of the respective manual page: https://manual.mailmate-app.com/rebuild before I opened MailMate (which I had previously updated to the latest beta build for Monterey). I then opened MailMate, manually synced all mailboxes, and waited for all the messages to download. After that I added my licence and checked the preferences as I moved from Mojave to Monterey (can't remember if I had to adjust any). This is the second time I've done this since using MailMate and the previous time was also effortless--a testament to Benny.
>>
>>
>> On 2022-02-20, at 06:06 +1300, Henry Seiden <info at techworkspro.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Had no success moving IMAP accounts/settings from an existing installation to a new computer. So, importing accounts from scratch (actually exporting them is impossible because that functionality doesn’t seem to exist on the new computer. Tried copying my account setting (Users>username>Library…) which didn’t move any accounts.
>>>
>>> Tops on my list of new/workable features is to move all settings (account settings, MM options, installed features) en masse by copy or export/import in Finder or MM, from a working installation of MM to a new computer, in the case of a clean install onto the same computer, or a different one from a file backup.
>>>
>>> MailMate clean install’s just fine by itself but all features, IMAP accounts and settings now need to be individually installed.
>>>
>>> The feature called Import Accounts contains nothing in the new installation and can’t use accounts created on the System (System Preferences>Accounts) or in another app (like Mail.app), unless they are appear installed in MailMate. That seems weird. Tried it on a new Beta (12.3) OS installation that had Mail.app accounts already logged in on that app, but the accounts installed there were not visible in MM, but some are visible as choices in the old, previous version(?).
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>>
>>> Henry Seiden
>>>
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