Hi all I'm excited to start using MailMate but had a bad experience (due to my ignorance no doubt) the first time I fired it up, as it tried to locally store every email I have and soon bottled up my SSD.
I have 350k unique emails in a Google Apps Gmail account. I have been using Mailplane and the web interface. I'm running a 2011 macbook with a 128 SSD startup drive (system & apps) and a 500 GB storage drive; both of course fairly full. I'd like to work offline and use MM to have access to a small segment of my email, say the past year, and continue to use Mailplane/Web UI for full search of older stuff. So: 1) is the first thing to do create a filter & label called "past year" with criteria newer_than:365d and have mail mate subscribe only to that? or is there a way to tell MM to only fetch email from the past year? 2) how does one handle "archiving"? I'm used to hitting "E" in gmail and banishing an email to the archive, which in gmail is the gargantuan "All mail," but I often find myself having to refer back to that email soon thereafter. Now Benny, for understandable reasons, strongly suggests *not* syncing with "All Mail" with MailMate. However if I don't do that, how do I access my recently archived emails? Or do I need some sort of "Recent archive" and move stuff there instead? I know that in October, the default treatment of Gmail/All Mail changed, so that people are now syncing that folder, but again, mine has 350k emails.... looking for best practices advice! 3) can I safely delete local copies of attachments (via Hazel) every week or so to stop that from bloating, knowing I'll always have a copy of the attachment on the server? Many thanks!
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