[MlMt] moving Mailmate mail to a newtork share

[Christian Bailey]

> ln -hfs afp://[NAS]/data/MailMate/Messages ~/Library/Application
Support/MailMate/Messages
I tried it again from scratch and this time it worked. I think there may
have been a problem with how I changed the symlink the first time.

I also see that now Options-General-Messages Folder-Custom location has
updated to reflect the symlink. This is unexpected. Normally a user would
expect to be able to change the symlink by changing that setting.

My message store had file mix-ups in this whole process so I'm starting
with a new one. I know I can use the “Message ▸ Reset...” menu item after
selecting all emails in each folder. Is there a way to do this for a whole
Account without deleting and re-adding it?

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 6:22 AM Christian Bailey via mailmate 'mailmate at
lists.freron.com' <freron+mailmate=lists.freron.com at aetm.us> wrote:

> 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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