Re: [MlMt] 2nd instance of MaiMate

2020-05-18 Thread Guillaume Barrette
Hi Randall,    No, I was suggesting switching "profiles" between different MailMate opening. Marc said that he wanted one instance handle its archive mailboxes and another one to its maintenance. So, I was saying to switch its data when he wants to do its maintenance and revert back for when

Re: [MlMt] 2nd instance of MaiMate

2020-05-18 Thread Randall Gellens
You're suggesting a script that: (1) Runs MailMate (2) Moves key files and folders while MailMate has them open (3) Runs MailMate for second instance Now there are two copies of MailMate running, one using the renamed files/folders, relying on file system semantics to keep the instances operat

Re: [MlMt] 2nd instance of MaiMate

2020-05-18 Thread Guillaume Barrette
Before seeing TJ's email, I thought of a manual solution, but now I think SwitchUp may be a better solution (less risky). However, if you want to try, you can simply create a script (or do it manually) that would switch between 2 sets of MailMate associated files (data). In short, you would

Re: [MlMt] 2nd instance of MaiMate

2020-05-18 Thread TJ Luoma
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/switchup/ was an application designed to do just that: let you run multiple separate apps as the same user. It's no longer in active development, but seems to work fine in Catalina. There's a 60-day trial on its website. The only downside is that it's no longer i

Re: [MlMt] 2nd instance of MaiMate

2020-05-18 Thread Rob Willett via mailmate
Depends on the VM technology, e.g. VMWare Fusion, Virtual Box, Parallels. We use VMWare Fusion for stuff that absolutely must run on Windows 10, in our case micro controller programmers. We use VMWare Fusion and the main resource limit for us is the memory but this is not all allocated at onc