[MlMt] moving Mailmate mail to a newtork share

[Christian Bailey]

I tried moving the target directory (com.freron.MailMate) to the NAS and
changing the link, but now MailMate crashes when run. I tried moving the
target directory to a USB drive and changed the link to point to that.
MailMate crashes when run.

I got MailMate to run again by deleting the symbolic link, but all but
newly received messages have their content missing. I could refetch
messages using the “Message ▸ Reset...” menu item, but want to move the
directory where they are stored first.

I've tried multiple times changing the folder in Options-General-Messages
Folder-Custom location. However, that always reverts after restarting
MailMate.

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 2:02 PM Christian Bailey via mailmate 'mailmate at
lists.freron.com' <freron+mailmate=lists.freron.com at aetm.us> wrote:

> On a MacMini, the SSD is full, mostly due to mailmate mailboxes.
>
> I tried moving them by changing the folder in Options-General-Messages
> Folder-Custom location. However, no files were moved.
>
> I see the mail is actually kept in: ~/com.freron.MailMate/Messages
> With a symlink from: ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages
>
> Can I just move the first folder to the NAS and then change the symlink
> with:
> ln -hfs afp://[NAS]/data/MailMate/Messages ~/Library/Application
> Support/MailMate/Messages
>
> ?
>
> I thought this would be a common issue and searched first, but didn’t find
> anything.
>
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