How to use MailMate to view local .MBOX email archive file
Reported by Chris Harasty | November 4th, 2024 @ 09:10 AM
Hi
I have downloaded MailMate. I dont want to connect to my Google
Workspace account as I use Chrome to handle my current emails.
I have taken a backup of my emails and downloaded them onto my
local hard drive as a .MBOX file. I want to use MailMate to
view my old emails. I should be able to go File > Import
Messages and select the .MBOX file but the "Import Messages"
menu
option is greyed out. How do I fix this problem and Import the
.MBOX mail archive?
Regards
Chris
Comments and changes to this ticket
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benny November 4th, 2024 @ 10:08 AM
- State changed from “new” to “resolved”
MailMate doesn't really support local emails, but if you are only going to use MailMate like this then I'd recommend simply creating a dummy offline IMAP account (with bogus settings). You can then create mailboxes within it and import into those.
In general, I don't recommend dummy accounts because they do not work intuitively when moving emails between online and offline accounts.
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Mac OS X email client.
benny