We have a small email server box of our own, running Apple MacOS Server.
We access it with Mailmate, and we use Mailmate’s tags feature heavily
to organize our tens of thousands of messages.
Apple has announced that it will discontinue the mail server feature. We
are going to have to move to a
One of the beauties of IMAP is that if you point your mail client at two
servers, you can drag existing mails from one server to the other. I
initially did this to transfer stuff from a POP server/client setup into
IMAP with a different email provider.
Where both servers are remote, everythin
Thanks, Paul. That might work, if our hosting service will support our
large volumes of saved mail (probably yes, if I throw money at them) and
if their server fully supports tags (I’m sure I can find one that
does).
We are still among those who, in spite of Benny’s advice, would like
to keep
MacOS Server uses Dovecot; if your new mail host runs Dovecot, I think
that the tags will transfer.
If they're friendly, you'll be able to copy over the Dovecot
directories. However, when I did that on a (non-Apple) Dovecot server I
run, I had to delete the dovecot.index* files.
On 12 Feb 20
Rick Holzgrafe 2018-02-13 0:46 wrote:
We are still among those who, in spite of Benny’s advice, would like
to keep a local (and properly tagged) mail archive, so I’m still
interested in finding a way to do that. But it’s good to know that
we have at least one solution likely to work for us; th
On 12 Feb 2018, at 18:16, Rick Holzgrafe wrote:
Is there any way to preserve not just the mail, but also the tags that
we have applied in Mailmate? I have explored the Application Support >
Mailmate folder, but as far as I can tell the tag info is not stored
there, except for a handy list of a
You’re the second person to suggest running a local Dovecot server.
One of the bits of good news in all this was that I was looking forward
to letting experts worry about the server stuff. I’m not an expert,
and maintaining our own server has been a nightmare. So I’m a bit
allergic to the notio
Hello,
Just remember that dovecot is only part of the equation, you also need
to configure stuff like postfix (or exim), spamassassin etc. On *nix,
there is a package called iredmail that makes installing (and
configuring) a lot easier. Perhaps you could also look at something like
Zimbra, ve
