On 15 Feb 2017, at 23:57, Mark Chapman wrote:
My regular IMAP mail provider has had a catastrophic hardware failure.
Unfortunately, before it went down completely it replaced all my mail
with mail from 2013. I am hoping that they have a good backup that
will restore everything when the hardware is replaced. However, in the
interim I need access to my mail.
I have everything backed up but am uncertain how to selectively
restore that one account. I think the mail would be found at:
~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/account
However, I don't think I can just replace the existing directory with
the one from backup. How do I go about this?
You need to use “File ▸ Import Messages...” to get the emails into
the account again. MailMate can then upload the emails to the server. If
you have some overlap then “Edit ▸ Select Duplicates” might be
helpful. It selects duplicates and not the originals (the originals are
assumed to be the messages first seen by MailMate). It only looks at
`Message-ID` and size, but that should be good enough for most purposes.
You might also want to consider switching IMAP provider.
--
Benny
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