22/01/04 chris : >how do you deal with synchronizing the Emailer database? >[...] >ie: You collect email on the desktop. Then you collect email on the >laptop, now you have new email in both versions of Emailer. How do you >get them to match? If you sync the laptop to the desktop, then you will >have one or the other version, so you will loose the email that is on one >of them.
I would use my "Emailer -> Eudora" script to export selected messages, then "Import - unix/Eudora" by R Shapiro to import them in the other DB. As mentionned earlier, imported messages loose their attachments because AS can't forge incoming messages with attachments. Outgoing messages could, but I didn't yet modify the import script to handle outgoing attachments, which in your case would be on another mac anyway. Instead I made the export script list attachments paths at the beginning of messages, unlike some archiving solutions that just ignore them and give no clue as to whether a message had attachments or not. The files have to be accessible when exporting, or else the script can only count them (this is a limitation of Emailer's scripting: I found no way to get the paths or even the names of missing files; OS X has the same problem: broken alias just say "missing" and show no path at all, whereas previous systems showed the last known path). Over-complicated scripts could also be made to sync databases between 2 instances of Emailer over the network to skip the export/import, but I don't think anybody wrote such a script and I have no intention to try. I'd rather make a simpler one to transfer manually selected messages between instances of Emailer, but since I use the same DB on the iBook from any mac on the LAN, I have absolutely no need for that either, as there can't be any sync issue with only one DB. My advice for using Emailer on multiple macs : [Chris mode] if you don't care about DBs being out of sync and don't go mad when you don't find a message because you forgot on which mac it is, lucky you, just go on [occasional mode] if you have occasional need to transfer messages between DBs to keep them in sync, use my export/import bundle http://vric.free.fr/mac/Emailer/ (I would make a "Today's messages" folder to regroup incoming and outgoing messages that need to be transfered, so I could export/import them in one go, then re-apply filters to them so they would go back to their auto-filing folders) [road mode] if you often use Emailer on many macs in many locations but don't carry a laptop or don't have a network (no network? on macs?): keep your DB and Emailer with its prefs file in its own folder on a portable disk (iPod, pocket drive, USB key, zip, jaz, etc.) and launch it from there: no sync issue ever as you always use the same DB and even the same prefs (remember to backup sometimes as portable media are more prone to dropping, loosing, stealing) [VRic mode] if you carry a laptop, just use the DB that is on the laptop from any mac over the network: it's not harder than copying the DB between macs (it's actually simpler as all you need to do is mount the shared disk and launch Emailer, skipping the copy part, and since an alias to the Emailer app on the laptop will mount its remote disk anyway it is identical to launching it locally) One could fear this would be slow, but I really don't feel so (Emailer and DB on iBook366/OSX accessed from Powermac 9600/G4/OS9 over 100Mb Ethernet). And anyway it would have to be VERY slow to come down to the time loss of copying my 190 MB DB back and forth daily. ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
