Freron MailMate

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  Meindert April 20th, 2014 @ 06:51 AM

  Also, what are the best practices for importing e-mails into MailMate where they are not connected with a currently active mail account? I tried to create a dummy account with no working online IMAP account, but it was inactive when I tried dragging mail into it.

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  benny April 21st, 2014 @ 12:47 PM

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  MailMate has a primitive “Edit ▸ Select Duplicates” menu item. It selects any messages that are duplicates of other messages (leaving the oldest occurrence unselected). That might help a bit.

  I do have some notes about how handling of duplicates could be improved. It is likely to be partly handled by external commands (i.e., bundle command(s)). I'll track any progress on that using this ticket.

  I do not recommend having messages in MailMate locally only. (To some extent, as you suggest, it can be hacked using an inactive dummy IMAP account -- there are caveats.)

  I do recommend uploading the messages to an IMAP account. This is done simply by importing them into a mailbox of an existing account. It'll also make it much easier to migrate to another email client in the future (which, of course, I hope you'll never need to do).

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  Meindert April 21st, 2014 @ 03:15 PM

  The Select Duplicates command got rid of about 10 percent of the 42,000 messages. From a spot-check, some of the remaining "duplicates" have different addresses, so they were probably cc'd to two of my addresses (hence, they are not strictly speaking duplicates).

  I originally used File > Import Messages to bring in the messages to a real account that had no really mail yet (a new account on a new domain). I then created a dummy IMAP account and mailbox in MailMate using an e-mail address that is dead and no longer works, and dragged all the imported messages into that, which is offline.

  The weird thing is, when I selected duplicates in the dummy account's mailbox and deleted them, the Activity Viewer showed expunging activity not in the dummy mailbox, but in the first account that they were imported into, the real account. What was going on here? As far as I could tell, the messages were no longer in that account. In fact, I think I did the whole operation of importing and dragging when both accounts were offline. I guess with IMAP, it remembers everything, and then tries to duplicate all the moves online the next time it's online?

  I'm slowing beginning to get my head around IMAP, but it certainly has its own logic.