Rules that take actions on messages are especially problematic to have
on more than one machine. If both machines are on and watching the
same IMAP account(s) with the same Smart Mailboxes using the same
rules, you can get race conditions.
Ah. I could see the issue with this. I don’t use this feature. My
Smart Mailboxes are filter/visibility only.
Yes, although you may not like it and I don't recommend it. You must
have the same IMAP accounts configured on both machines.
1. Quit MM on both machines
2. Copy all /Users/dad/Library/ApplicationSupport/MailMate/*.plist
files from the machine whose config you want to keep to the other
machine.
3. Repeat every time you want to switch machines.
Simple, yes?
Perfect.
On 2 Feb 2021, at 22:05, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2 Feb 2021, at 21:43, Nicholas Vahalik wrote:
Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere.
It has been discussed here before. Here are two of the times that it
has come up:
https://mailmate.freron.narkive.com/C29rlbuH/mlmt-sync-mailmate-settings
https://mailmate.freron.narkive.com/14k120v0/mlmt-syncing-mailboxes#post4
There is also a long-standing ticket:
https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/430
I’d really like to be able to sync up my Smart Mailbox
configuration between machines. This is especially painful when the
Smart Mailbox rules can take several minutes to build.
Rules that take actions on messages are especially problematic to have
on more than one machine. If both machines are on and watching the
same IMAP account(s) with the same Smart Mailboxes using the same
rules, you can get race conditions.
I have a chronic problem of IMAP sessions going into an infinite loop
which may be caused by this but which is quite hard to diagnose in
depth because of the volume of logs produced. See
https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672-mailmate/tickets/1491
for details.
Is there a simple way to keep that configuration in sync between
machines?
Yes, although you may not like it and I don't recommend it. You must
have the same IMAP accounts configured on both machines.
1. Quit MM on both machines
2. Copy all /Users/dad/Library/ApplicationSupport/MailMate/*.plist
files from the machine whose config you want to keep to the other
machine.
3. Repeat every time you want to switch machines.
Simple, yes?
A shell-script ssh/scp/rsync setup would be OK as well.
The above steps should be fairly simple to turn into a shell script,
given mutual trust between the 2 machines.
If you do this, it is best to only ever have MM up on one of the
machines.
An alternative approach (which I use) is to do the above steps once,
and then remove all rules from all mailboxes (including both "Smart"
and "Source" mailboxes) on the machine that is more frequently
offline. I did this to avoid races and so I can leave the desktop
instance running all of the time, doing all of the automation (e.g.
rules that move new messages to the appropriate mailbox as they
arrive.)
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