On 25 Apr 2023, at 3:10, Randall Gellens wrote:
Having one client execute rules is a well-known way of using IMAP. In the old days when IMAP was first being designed, this was called an active client (the client is always on and actively moving/deleting messages).
Yes, I could designate one computer as the master, but that would mean never letting it “sleep” at all. I would rather not do that since these two computers may go days (or weeks) without being used for anything else. I am usually carefully to manage my instances in such circumstances, but I have also set up remote access so that I can tunnel in and quit MailMate if/when I forget.
Server-side rules might be an option, but I’m really not motivated to set it up on the Comcast/Xfinity platform.
It won't work to have two active clients, because messages will vanish and appear while a client is trying to operate on them.
IMHO, it’s not the end of the world to have a message disappear during a move operation, especially when it’s due to some other instance of MailMate that is already performing the intended move operation. And while server problems that could cause a message to disappear are not impossible, they are *vanishingly* unlikely.
I’m definitely not looking for some kind of out-of-band coordination here, just a more forgiving response to certain types of errors. I regard quietly taking a folder offline as a rather severe response. One simple option would be to back off and wait a minute before retrying. A more sophisticated option would be to check if the intended message move was already accomplished before complaining.
Glenn P. Parker glenn.par...@comcast.net
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