On 2024-11-14 at 10:44:41 UTC-0500 (Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:44:41 +0100)
Robert M. Münch <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
Hi,
I have a new system and about 300.000 emails in Gmail. The big
question is how to get these into MailMate best.
There are 2 options:
1. Re-download all the messages into a new MM account.
2. Trick MM into thinking that it already has that account and all of
its messages.
Since my other system's MM installation is pretty old and has some
quirks, I want to start fresh with MM.
Option #1 it is then.
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?
That's an Option #2 variant and is not going to work.
The message-per-file layout of the MM local message store is easily
understood by a human looking at it, but it is not in any way a standard
that Google Takeout would follow.
It should theoretically be possible to copy all of the messages in an
existing account from one Mac to another, if you can do a perfect copy
including the essential extended attributes that MM adds to every
message file. You could then have MM rebuild its indexing database from
the existing messages. Benny has never fully documented a good way to do
this, but multiple people have suggested procedures here in the past
that seem reasonable. Obviously, that is NOT a "fresh start."
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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