[MlMt] moving tags to a new Mac

[Eric Sharakan]

Hi Benny, appreciate the reply.  I agree that with server support for 
custom IMAP keywords, things work great, as it does for my other 
non-work email accounts.  I use the Preside App on my phone for all my 
email accounts other than my work one, and tags created in MM are 
visible there and vice-versa.

I have been manually re-creating the tags for my work email account on 
my new laptop over the last few months, and at this point I'm basically 
done.  Hopefully I won't need to go through that process again the next 
time I migrate to a new computer for work, either because a better 
solution is available, the server infrastructure for my work email 
starts supporting custom IMAP keywords, or I've decided to retire. :-)

Thanks.

-Eric

On 17 Jul 2024, at 9:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 12 Apr 2024, at 14:46, Eric Sharakan via mailmate wrote:
>
>> Hmm, so it looks like I asked this very question when I migrated to 
>> my current Mac in 2018, and the answers back then were not 
>> encouraging. :-( I now have a vague recollection of manually 
>> re-generating my tags.  It was not fun.
>>
>> I'm hoping someone has since come up with a better method (perhaps 
>> via a bundle of some sort?) to accomplish this.  The thought of 
>> losing access to all the tags associated with my work email is 
>> unbearable.  The thought of manually re-creating them is out of the 
>> question; my tags usage has exploded in these past 6 years.
>
> Sorry about the late response to this one. I don't know of any 
> automated or easy ways to do this. The easiest would likely be to have 
> copied the entire MailMate folder (Library/Application Support) which 
> would include the database files storing this information.
>
> This also underlines the problem with local-only tags in general. They 
> would also be lost if rebuilding the database. There's always some 
> data loss risk in using tags with Exchange accounts.
>
> When IMAP keywords are supported by the server then MailMate is very 
> robust with regards to never losing this information, but that is far 
> from true when Exchange is involved (and possibly a few other rare 
> IMAP servers).
>
>> Benny, I'm a programmer, and would be willing to try to write a 
>> bundle to accomplish this, if you can give me the info I need to 
>> extract the tags from my old laptop and re-introduce them to the 
>> messages in my new one.
>
> Exporting tags is possible but importing tags is not possible as it is 
> now (with a bundle command) -- or at least very hard.
>
> (Special case: If tags are used in a mutually exclusive way then it 
> would be possible to create a folder in the Exchange account for each 
> tag and then move messages into these mailboxes to do the migration 
> using folders.)
>
> Maybe I'll come up with a good solution some day... At least one 
> making database rebuilding more robust (but that won't solve your 
> problem).
>
>> On 11 Apr 2024, at 21:04, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm in the process of migrating to a new Mac.  I've copied most 
>>> of the MM config & settings over from my old Mac and most things are 
>>> working fine.  But one problem I have is the tags for my corporate 
>>> email account (which uses Exchange).  Since Exchange doesn't support 
>>> tags, they're not available on the new Mac.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to do a one-time copy of the tags from my old Mac 
>>> to the new one?
>
> -- 
> Benny
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