Sorry I should probably have said that if I want to fetch an old email
and it happens not to have been saved on my local machine, I can connect
to the mail server with TailScale as I don’t make the server available
to the general Internet…
On 14 Nov 2024, at 15:59, Raza Rizvi wrote:
Robert,
But you can’t import into MM, you could only import(if possible)
import that into another mail server - which you could run locally on
a Mac of course and then point MM to that.
I have done a similar thing with a local Mac mini 2009 serving my
older email - that runs MailServe.
MailServe is basically a wrapper around Dovecot and a few other things
but is cheap and functional - plus I failed to get Dovecot working
satisfactorily on my own for reasons I forget - it is FOSS that you
can get with homebrew.
That mail server has 303005 mails on it… so very much akin to your
requirements. To copy the emails you can just copy folders from Gmail
to MailServe with drag and drop from within MailMate, that is easier
than using IMAP COPY or export/import I recall - although it takes
longer (plus you then have the original in case you muck stuff up and
what to do it again)
Raza
On 14 Nov 2024, at 15:44, Robert M. Münch wrote:
Hi,
I have a new system and about 300.000 emails in Gmail. The big
question is how to get these into MailMate best.
Since my other system's MM installation is pretty old and has some
quirks, I want to start fresh with MM.
Has anyone tried to use Google Takeout to export all Gmail content
and import it into MM? Does that work? What if I already downloaded
some emails via IMAP? Are duplicates recognized?
--
Robert M. Münch
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