On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 06:15 PM, Sherif Soliman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 05:09 PM, Sherif Soliman wrote: > > This happened on the MailMate BETA, but I don't know if it's limited to > > it or can happen in the stable version. > > > > I use FastMail and they recently made some security upgrades[1], which > > include two factor authentication (2FA), app-specific passwords, and new > > imap and smtp server names. > > > > [1]: > > https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/07/25/two-step-verification-and-other-new-security-features/ > > > > Once you enable 2FA on FastMail, you *have* to generate app-specific > > passwords. I generated a new password for MailMate to use, and went to > > update the account information by right clicking on it in the list of > > sources. > > > > I put in the new password and changed the server names from the old > > `mail.messagingengine.com` to `<protocol>.fastmail.com`. > > > > What happened afterwards is that MailMate re-downloaded my entire email > > content from FastMail. I know because I use Little Snitch and I could > > see that MailMate used the same amount of bandwidth down as my used > > space on FastMail. > > > > It also reset some of the mailboxes that have "types". For example, I > > had to re-tell MailMate which folder to use for Sent Messages, and which > > one to use for Junk, and Trash. > > > > I don't know if that's expected behaviour or not. It could be a really > > expensive download for some people (I have the speed and bandwidth to > > spare, so I'm good). > > > > If it is unexpected but intended, is there a way to make it not happen? > > > > If it is unavoidable for whatever reason, then this is a PSA to people > > that this could happen, so if you plan on making changes to server names > > and can wait for a time when you don't need your network or have free > > bandwidth, you should do that. > > > > (apologies for the duplicate email - not sure what happened) > > And now MailMate is extremely sluggish in starting up, and will often freeze > on startup. The duplicate message happened as it struggled with this cycle. >
Finally, try as I might to stop it from doing so, MailMate sends my sent mail to "Sent-Items-1" instead of the Sent folder I instruct it to use. I will likely start fresh tonight. Sherif _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
