Hey, Paul — I’m doing something similar now — though instead of a bespoke Johnny Decimalish system I’ve elected to go with strict alphabetic folders (labels, really) for each correspondent, as well as one for each year (1990 to present). I have about 300,000 messages, and also use Fastmail.
I have found it most practical to use server rules and features whenever possible for two reasons: 1. Messages will be much more likely to be exactly where I expect them and in the state that I expect them to be in no matter whether I’m using my primary Mac client (MailMate) or a web interface or an iDevice app. 2. It lightens the CPU load on my Mac. 3. If my Mac or Mac client is out of commission or offline or giving a presentation or something, mail processing continues without me. There are some actions that Fastmail doesn’t support (moving or labelling messages after a certain amount of time has passed, for example) that must be done locally; for these, of course, I do use MailMate rules. In the past, I have found it *absolutely critical* if I want to avoid client crashes and SPODs to do reörganization work directly in the Fastmail interface, and to keep IMAP/JMAP clients utterly in the dark (offline) until I have finished. Once I’ve finished reörganization in Fastmail, I reëngage clients one at a time by relaunching them *and waiting for them to completely sync* before I launch any other clients. And at *this* point I will engage (or create) any necessary MailMate rules. I hope this helps, and would be happy to answer any questions (although I’m scheduled for surgery and a couple of days in the hospital shortly, so there may be a delay!). — Erik <https://erikmh.org/> ------ **2024-06-23 13:07 | [Paul Atlan](mailto:paulat...@fastmail.fm)**: > > I’m trying to tame my fastmail account by creating a number of nested > mailboxes with rules and conditions. > (not really relevant, but I’m using my own take on the Johnny Decimal system)… > There are about 14 000 messages in my fastmail account. > Unfortunately, MailMate hangs very often (as in , three times in the last ten > minutes) when editing the mailbox rules. > > I haven’t been able to nail down a specific action that makes it hang. > > In some cases, if I wait a minute it will finish whatever task is ongoing and > un-hang, but most of the time I’ll have to restart mail mate. > > Is there a way: > > • to identifiy wich actions create the hang-up , so I can maybe mitigate them > • alternatively to edit the rules “off-line” as it where and then apply them? > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >
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