On 7 Nov 2017, at 8:06 (-0500), Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 7 Nov 2017, at 8:18, Robert M. Münch wrote:
On 6 Nov 2017, at 21:46, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
Seeing that this question arise again: Benny, wouldn't be possible
to have a menu-item / preference-button for exporting everything
that make sense (like a backup-capsule :-) in order to start with
MailMate on a new machine / os / etc.?
How about just exporting these files on Dropbox/... and importing
them again on startup if they are available? Keeping configs in sync
on many machines is really a key-feature these days.
I agree with this. I do think it would be a nice feature to at least
synchronize mailboxes, signatures, and tags. It's just one of those
features I keep on postponing.
Synchronizing account settings would be tricky although I haven't
thought about it in detail.
I miss the old "MobileMe" prefs sync. It *mostly* worked...
In theory, an app can use the NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore class to sync
prefs between multiple devices, but it has an issue. From the Apple
docs:
"To use this class, you must distribute your app through the App
Store or Mac App Store"
One thing that MIGHT work for the settings that are in the 'defaults'
subsystem (I have not tried it, because I value my email...) is to use
its "export" and "import" subcommands to dump the settings to a file
that can be loaded on another machine. That has all sorts of problematic
edge cases, such as the fact that in my case the 2 machines I would be
keeping in sync are a 27" iMac and a 13" Macbook. The different screen
sizes mean that I don't want the same window sizes or default layouts or
columns or even fonts on both machines. So if a dump/load approach was
used, there would need to be some way to protect machine-specific
settings.
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