Question about updating email archive when two Macs involved

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I have searched but not found the answer to this particular question.

I have two Macs, A and B. Both have only IMAP Mail accounts so have all the same email.

On Mac A, I have just successfully imported all my email using the “Archive email” option in the Importer tab. This has all gone into a dedicated new database which is sync’d to Mac B with Bonjour.

Running “Archive Mail” again on Mac A imports only the latest mail. All good so far.

The question is can I use “Archive Mail” on Mac B to update the database with the latest mail, or will Mac B see all existing emails as different because they were imported on Mac A? Hence try to import the whole 100k emails again, as duplicates.

Thanks

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Archiving email should work as expected on either machine provided the database is synced between them before archiving.

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Thanks for the answer I wanted! Seems to have worked OK

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You’re welcome and there should be no issue with it since the emails have UUIDs that inhibit them from being imported into a database more than once.

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