[MlMt] local folders

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Apr 19 15:45:37 EDT 2023


On 19 Apr 2023, at 12:06, Randy Bush wrote:

> corporate IT may do something overly creative.  just in case, i want 
> to
> pull some years of email off the imap server onto local disk.  there 
> are
> tools for this, but can mailmate do it in a way i can still access the
> mail while on local disk?
>
> randy
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All emails are already on your local disk, in ~/Library/Application 
Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/*. Copy those elsewhere if you need to, 
but if you use Time Machine you already have a lot of backups of them.

         —Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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