On 31 May 2023, at 2:24, Pierre Igot wrote:
> I wouldn’t describe it as “low effort” for Mac users who are not that
> comfortable with Unix stuff.
Agreed, comfort with the Unix underpinnings is likely needed. I was describing
it as ‘low effort’ in the context of Randy saying, ‘i use dovecot on
On 19 Apr 2023, at 20:47, Randy Bush wrote:
> i was hoping for something very simple to run on laptop for local-only use.
> it'll take effort to configure dovecot as a simple local imap-only server.
I’m quite late to this, so maybe not of use to you anymore… When I switched to
MailMate, I
Late to the party, but I’m pretty sure this is the reason. I’m on
r5950 and checking for a new Test Build tells me I’m on the latest
one. Benny said in an earlier email that he hasn’t put anything newer
into the test build release stream because of several crashing bugs
(maybe now resolved?).
FWIW, I have always had a keybinding file that uses address@server UUIDs
mapped to a single key and they work fine. However, the format of mine
are slightly different from yours:
``` "2" = ( "goToMailbox:",
"INBOX:jolinwarren%40oakandapple@mail.oakandapple.org" );```
Did you
On 24 Jan 2023, at 4:53, John Cooper wrote:
I also occasionally use a Mac app called "Prefs Editor" to browse and
edit a .plist file. It's still available at
http://apps.tempel.org/PrefsEditor/.
Using Prefs Editor is actually the only reliable way to edit plist
contents without using the
click either the arrow or ⌘ R. I can
select either option in that window.
FWIW… Would still prefer the old method of single or all direct
selection.
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On Oct 3, 2022, at 09:38, Jolin
Unfortunately, header customisation was lost when Benny started overhauling the
way MailMate displays messages a year or two ago It will possibly return at
some indeterminate point in the future.
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailmate@lists.freron.com/msg14816.html
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I was expecting something to happen to the messages, not the mailbox
icon! Didn’t even look there.
If you tick the option at the bottom of the colour menu – `Use Colour
in Message List` – then it will also colour the messages (while they
are in that mailbox, it doesn’t change their colour if
I have a smart mailbox for mailing lists which uses
`${list-id.identifier.final-level}` as its name. I have a mailing list
with a list-id of `newsletter.comedy.co.uk.randomletters`. Right now the
mailbox displays as `newsletter` but I’d like it to be
`newsletter.comedy.co.uk` (without the
In the current version of MailMate, is there a way to toggle a reply between
‘Reply’ and ‘Reply All’ after I’ve started writing the message? I thought that
in previous versions I could hit cmd-R repeatedly to toggle whether I was
replying just to the sender or to everyone, but that doesn’t work
A further update in case it’s of use for anyone in the future…
I had to restart my Mac yesterday, and the problem with clicking links in
MailMate returned. I have my apps set to relaunch after restart, so both
MailMate and Safari had launched automatically. I manually quit and relaunched
You can put comments in the KeyBindings files using `/* comment */`.
Here’s the beginning of my keybinding file (I think originally based
on some MailMate template I found) and it works fine:
~~~
{
/*
* | Keybindings |
* | Shortcut | Code
On 27 Sep 2022, at 13:08, Jolin Warren wrote:
The trick is somehow writing an mmbundle (command) that can get the ID
of a message. It seems like something that should be simple, but I
have no idea how to write MailMate commands. Maybe someone else on
the list can provide the missing piece
Harry,
Thanks, I hadn’t thought to rebuild the database. As you say, since
everything’s working I won’t do it now. But I’ve read through the help page
about it in the hopes it’s now filed away in my brain for potential future
troubleshooting!
Thanks again,
Jolin
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Thanks Henry, Sam, & Richard for responding. Strangely the issue seems to have
resolved itself. I’m not sure if restarting Safari or MailMate helped, but I
can again click links in received messages and have them open. What a relief!
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I don’t know if anyone else is having this issue, but I upgraded to 5918
yesterday, and now when I click a link in a received email, nothing happens.
The first time I clicked on a link, it opened in Safari as expected. But any
other links don’t do anything. Is this a known issue with 5918? I’m
On 10 Dec 2021, at 12:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2021, at 11:59, Jolin Warren wrote:
>
>> Being able to see a few additional headers is fairly important to the way I
>> manage my email – I don’t suppose there’s any chance you’ll add a feature
>> like this?
On 25 Nov 2021, at 17:18, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2021, at 13:59, Jolin Warren wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone who responded, I downloaded r5848, moved my MailMate folder
>> to the new machine, and it’s all working well! This new version looks really
>> nice,
On 23 Nov 2021, at 2:03, Thomas Bartlett via mailmate wrote:
> I now have r5844 (not 5848, if that makes any difference), version 1.14. So I
> guess I’m pretty much fully up to date now.
If you want to manually download r5848, all releases are available here:
Thanks everyone who responded, I downloaded r5848, moved my MailMate folder to
the new machine, and it’s all working well! This new version looks really nice,
too, though I’ve lost my custom header layout on message windows. I suppose I
need to update my headersFormatting.plist file for the new
Hey all,
I’m about to migrate to a new computer, so will be going through a
forced upgrade from Mojave (10.14) to Monterey (12.0). I see that r5848
was posted today. Is this what I should use, and does it work ok with
Monterey? Or should I be using the MailMateBigSur.tbz archive (which I
On 9 Mar 2021, at 23:44, leo wrote:
That’s a cool workaround - at least when you know _beforehand_ all
the messages you want to attach to one email. Didn’t think of this.
Thanks!
Even if you don’t know beforehand, you can start composing an email
and then drag a message in from the mailbox
One of the things that I think Apple Mail does really well is dealing
with image attachments. In particular, when I’m sending a message and
I need to include some photos to show what I’m talking about, Mail
shows me the total size of the email with the images and lets me resize
them, adjusting
On 1 Mar 2021, at 11:33, Jolin Warren wrote:
This raises another question for me, though: what would be the point
of a condition-only or action-only rule? Can anyone think of how these
might be used?
I’ve just inadvertently answered half of my question: an action-only
rule will apply to all
On 28 Feb 2021, at 15:07, Eric Sharakan wrote:
I always assumed 'C' means condition and 'A' means action. Given that
most rules include both, you usually see "C A".
That is so obvious now you say it! And I confirmed this is indeed the
case:
Hello all,
Something that has puzzled me about creating Rules in MailMate, is what
the meaning of the `Type` column is? Every rule I create has a stylised
`C A` in it:
What does this indicate? What other types
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On 21 Feb 2021, at 15:49, Kee Hinckley wrote:
Have you tried a regular expression “or”?
I hadn’t, but that sorted it! Thanks so much – as I suspected, it
was my inadequate knowledge of grep that was the problem.
By the way, you might have found this by now, but if you want
I use the `retiredAddressPattern` hidden preference to store old
addresses for some of my IMAP accounts. There’s one account in
particular where the organisation migrated domains, so the
`retiredAddressPattern` preference contains the address pattern regular
expression that matches my email
I don’t know if this helps diagnose the issue, but I get the same
behaviour as Bill (and shown in his video): my headers stay in place and
the body of the message scrolls up under them. I have customised my
headers (in ~/Library/Application
On 2 Feb 2021, at 14:13, TJ Luoma wrote:
2. Other than clicking the "Plain Text / Markdown" just above the
"From" line, is there a way (preferably a menu bar item or keyboard
shortcut) to set a message to "Markdown"?
Yes! The `Format` menu has a `Show Markup` command with a default
keyboard
Hello list,
As I’ve mentioned in a previous email, I am moving from Apple Mail to
MailMate. One aspect of my Mail setup that I’ve not been able to
replicate is how I deal with messages I file when not on my computer.
##Background
I file my messages into various mailboxes using a structure
On 19 Jan 2021, at 16:28, Charlie Clark wrote:
I wonder how many of the various messenger systems will still be with
us in 50 years…
IRC??
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On 17 Jan 2021, at 12:11, Thomas Eckhold wrote:
Not sure it it is what you are looking for but have you tried the
„Go to Source“ command?
臘♂️
That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Not sure how I missed
it, as I have recently used the `Show in Finder` command a few times,
which is
Hello list,
Sometimes in MailMate I’m looking at a message in a Smart Mailbox or
search results, and I want to easily jump to the message’s IMAP folder
and see it selected in the folder’s listing. This can be from looking
at the message in a Smart Mailbox’s/search results listing, or (more
On 15 Jan 2021, at 5:48, Bill Cole wrote:
The explanation is long and it's late, so here's a link to something
I worked out some time back:
https://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2015-April/004195.html
Following that thread through shows a possible solution for Steven,
provided by Benny. There’s
On 14 Jan 2021, at 14:59, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
On 14 Jan 2021, at 1:09, Randy Bush wrote:
sigh. i will make this error time and again
I sigh with you.
As do I! As I’ve been trialling MailMate as a replacement for Apple
Mail, this is one of the few issues I’ve had so far that I haven’t
On 13 Jan 2021, at 0:58, Randy Bush wrote:
mm changed the displayed in gui From: (from ra...@arrcus.com to
ra...@psg.com) when i typed the to: ra...@psg.com.
This is likely because of the settings for “New Message” in the
Composer preferences. If it’s set to “derived from context”, MM
Perfect, that did the trick. Thanks!
-Jolin
On 4 Jan 2021, at 16:13, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
Make a new Smart Mailbox where you want it, and add nothing to it.
Close it. Rename it to the name you want for your folder. It will
behave like a folder.
On 4 Jan 2021, at 11:00, Jolin Warren
Hello all,
I’m currently in the process of moving from Mail to MailMate, and
really liking the power of MailMate’s smart folders. The default set
under the “Mailboxes” section includes two blue folders that group
smart folders together: “All Messages” and “Examples”. I realise
that “All
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