Hi Benny, appreciate the reply. I agree that with server support for
custom IMAP keywords, things work great, as it does for my other
non-work email accounts. I use the Preside App on my phone for all my
email accounts other than my work one, and tags created in MM are
visible there and vice-versa.
I have been manually re-creating the tags for my work email account on
my new laptop over the last few months, and at this point I'm basically
done. Hopefully I won't need to go through that process again the next
time I migrate to a new computer for work, either because a better
solution is available, the server infrastructure for my work email
starts supporting custom IMAP keywords, or I've decided to retire. :-)
Thanks.
-Eric
On 17 Jul 2024, at 9:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 12 Apr 2024, at 14:46, Eric Sharakan via mailmate wrote:
Hmm, so it looks like I asked this very question when I migrated to
my current Mac in 2018, and the answers back then were not
encouraging. :-( I now have a vague recollection of manually
re-generating my tags. It was not fun.
I'm hoping someone has since come up with a better method (perhaps
via a bundle of some sort?) to accomplish this. The thought of
losing access to all the tags associated with my work email is
unbearable. The thought of manually re-creating them is out of the
question; my tags usage has exploded in these past 6 years.
Sorry about the late response to this one. I don't know of any
automated or easy ways to do this. The easiest would likely be to have
copied the entire MailMate folder (Library/Application Support) which
would include the database files storing this information.
This also underlines the problem with local-only tags in general. They
would also be lost if rebuilding the database. There's always some
data loss risk in using tags with Exchange accounts.
When IMAP keywords are supported by the server then MailMate is very
robust with regards to never losing this information, but that is far
from true when Exchange is involved (and possibly a few other rare
IMAP servers).
Benny, I'm a programmer, and would be willing to try to write a
bundle to accomplish this, if you can give me the info I need to
extract the tags from my old laptop and re-introduce them to the
messages in my new one.
Exporting tags is possible but importing tags is not possible as it is
now (with a bundle command) -- or at least very hard.
(Special case: If tags are used in a mutually exclusive way then it
would be possible to create a folder in the Exchange account for each
tag and then move messages into these mailboxes to do the migration
using folders.)
Maybe I'll come up with a good solution some day... At least one
making database rebuilding more robust (but that won't solve your
problem).
On 11 Apr 2024, at 21:04, Eric Sharakan wrote:
Hi, I'm in the process of migrating to a new Mac. I've copied most
of the MM config & settings over from my old Mac and most things are
working fine. But one problem I have is the tags for my corporate
email account (which uses Exchange). Since Exchange doesn't support
tags, they're not available on the new Mac.
Is there any way to do a one-time copy of the tags from my old Mac
to the new one?
--
Benny
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