I use MailMate on two computers in two physically separate locations.
Each instance of MailMate uses a similar set of rules on my primary
INBOX to relocate certain incoming email into dedicated folders. For
example, the messages from this MailMate forum are directed into a
MailMate folder. I realize there are other ways to manage this kind of
thing in MailMate (isolating messages from email lists), but use a less
sophisticated email client on my Android devices (AquaMail), and this
style yields a fairly comfortable workflow for me across all my devices.
I have found that I must be careful to avoid running my two MailMate
instances at the same time. Otherwise they seem to get into a fight over
who is going to execute the INBOX rules. When this happens, it typically
generates a bunch of seemingly dire error messages from MailMate, and
eventually causes MailMate to take one or more folders off-line.
My points here are two-fold. First, if you try the same thing, don’t
be too surprised if you run into some complications. So far, this has
not resulted in any loss of email for me, but having a folder quietly go
off-line while you’re not looking can be confusing.
Second, I’d like to ask if MailMate could be more forgiving when it
runs into this particular situation. That is to say, when moving
messages between folders using automatic rules, if a message
“disappears” during the operation, allow this to be treated as a
soft error that can generate an (optional) warning, but don’t take any
folders off-line.
Glenn P. Parker
glenn.par...@comcast.net
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