On 9 May 2012, at 9:24, Benny Kj?r Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 May 2012, at 9:06, Niels Kobsch?tzki wrote:
>
>> I copied it to ~/Library/Application 
>> Support/MailMate/Resources/Layouts/headersFormatting.plist but no 
>> change in the longFormatting-part shows up when I modify it. Not the 
>> one snippet Bill sent me, nor any other changes. I tried for example 
>> to change the "From:" to "Blubber:"
>> I didn't delete anything from that file, just modified it (wanted to 
>> see if it works before cleaning it up).
>>
>> I edited the file with MacVim, not with the Plist-editor (installing 
>> XCode just for that is a bit overkill).
>>
>> Any ideas why MailMate apparently doesn't use my 
>> headersFormatting.plist?
>
> 1. You must restart MailMate (I forgot to mention that).
> 2. Maybe you made a mistake when editing the file and it is no longer 
> a valid property list (I'm afraid no error is sent to console in this 
> case).
>
> For case number 2 you can use `plutil` to check the file. Just write 
> the following in the Terminal:
>
>       plutil headersFormatting.plist

Thanks, didn't know that one.

A "," after the last } was missing as it seems (had other errors, fixed 
it otherwise and therefore it's a guess ;)).

Niels

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