On 26 Jul 2014, at 11:40, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 26 Jul 2014, at 0:21, Sherif Soliman wrote:
I'm helping a friend import her old email into MailMate. She has some
inboxes of exported messages (On My Mac) from Mail.app that she
wanted to import into MailMate.
The inboxes have lots of unread as well as read messages. However,
when we imported those inboxes into MailMate (using File > Import
Messages... > Select folder + Use destination for all messages), all
the imported emails were unread.
Why is the seen/unseen status lost?
Because this information (and other flags) are not saved with the
messages when exporting from Apple Mail.
ugh Apple Mail
Is there a way to preserve the read/unread status of all those
messages when importing?
I usually recommend setting up the same IMAP account in MailMate and
Apple Mail. Then move the messages by moving the On My Mac mailboxes
to the IMAP account in Apple Mail. MailMate automatically fetches the
mailbox and its messages when synchronizing the account.
This not only preserves the read-state, but also other flags such as
$Answered, $Forwarded, \Flagged, $Junk, and $NotJunk.
We did that and it worked quite well. Thank you!
Note that MailMate does not support local mailboxes like those in On
My Mac. This means that MailMate would be uploading the messages to an
IMAP account anyways.
Yes I knew that part. My friend had moved to Fastmail so she had enough
quota to re-upload those local mailboxes and keep them on the server.
Thanks again.
Sherif
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