Christian,
Apologies for delayed reply, I was overseas.
I asked the same question back in Feb 2021 and summarised to the list
the following which might help you:
**
So I had useful suggestions from some readers and it was Bill who was
spot on.
So the “Messages” alias IS ACTUALLY a symlink to Messages.noindex so
if you want to move the Messages.noindex folder elsewhere (while
MailMate is not running), you need to recreate that symlink. Creating an
OSX style GUI alias won’t work - and MailMate crashes shortly after
startup when it tries to access the mail store.
Here is the difference between the “Messages” apparent alias (which
I had named Messages ORIG” and an OSX GUI created alias:
OSX $ ls -al Me*
lrwx------ 1 raza staff 16 24 Feb 19:47 Messages ORIG ->
Messages.noindex
-rw-r--r--@ 1 raza staff 944 25 Feb 09:37 Messages.noindex alias
so the top link shows the “l” for symlink
So from within the original MailMate directory I created a new symlink
to the copied mail store, and renamed the original Messages.noindex:
OSX $ ln -sf '/Volumes/SSD20201/MailMate/Messages.noindex' Messages
OSX $ ls -al
total 112
…
lrwxr-xr-x 1 raza staff 43 25 Feb 09:45 Messages ->
/Volumes/SSD20201/MailMate/Messages.noindex
lrwx------ 1 raza staff 16 24 Feb 19:47 Messages ORIG ->
Messages.noindex
drwxrwxrwx 4 raza staff 128 16 Nov 14:03 Messages.noindex ORIG
Then I started up MailMate.
And sent this message. So it does all work.
**
This was for moving the whole of the message store because like you, I
was running out of disk space. Though I chose to do it to a locally
attached SSD rather than a NAS.
Raza
On 7 Nov 2023, at 14:49, Christian Bailey via mailmate wrote:
ln -hfs afp://[NAS]/data/MailMate/Messages ~/Library/Application
Support/MailMate/Messages
I tried it again from scratch and this time it worked. I think there
may
have been a problem with how I changed the symlink the first time.
I also see that now Options-General-Messages Folder-Custom location
has
updated to reflect the symlink. This is unexpected. Normally a user
would
expect to be able to change the symlink by changing that setting.
My message store had file mix-ups in this whole process so I'm
starting
with a new one. I know I can use the “Message ▸ Reset...” menu
item after
selecting all emails in each folder. Is there a way to do this for a
whole
Account without deleting and re-adding it?
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 6:22 AM Christian Bailey via mailmate
'mailmate at
lists.freron.com' <freron+mailmate=lists.freron....@aetm.us> wrote:
I tried moving the target directory (com.freron.MailMate) to the NAS
and
changing the link, but now MailMate crashes when run. I tried moving
the
target directory to a USB drive and changed the link to point to
that.
MailMate crashes when run.
I got MailMate to run again by deleting the symbolic link, but all
but
newly received messages have their content missing. I could refetch
messages using the “Message ▸ Reset...” menu item, but want to
move the
directory where they are stored first.
I've tried multiple times changing the folder in
Options-General-Messages
Folder-Custom location. However, that always reverts after restarting
MailMate.
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 2:02 PM Christian Bailey via mailmate
'mailmate at
lists.freron.com' <freron+mailmate=lists.freron....@aetm.us> wrote:
On a MacMini, the SSD is full, mostly due to mailmate mailboxes.
I tried moving them by changing the folder in
Options-General-Messages
Folder-Custom location. However, no files were moved.
I see the mail is actually kept in: ~/com.freron.MailMate/Messages
With a symlink from: ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages
Can I just move the first folder to the NAS and then change the
symlink
with:
ln -hfs afp://[NAS]/data/MailMate/Messages ~/Library/Application
Support/MailMate/Messages
?
I thought this would be a common issue and searched first, but
didn’t
find anything.
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