Re: [MlMt] Thread expansion logic?

2024-03-01 Thread Glenn Parker
You may already know this, or it may not be your preferred UI, but you can use Option-Right_Arrow to fully expand a collapsed thread. If you prefix that with Command-A to select all messages, you will fully expand every thread in a mailbox. I sometimes use this to “get the big picture” on a

Re: [MlMt] Customising Mailbox Headers

2024-02-26 Thread Glenn Parker
The geeky solution would be to directly edit the .plist options file to set up all your header preferences. On 16 Feb 2024, at 2:47, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: The tools for modifying the header columns are fine - provided you only want to make one change. Unfortunately it is tedious to make

Re: [MlMt] Changing default email sever and popup list suggestions

2024-01-30 Thread Glenn Parker
On 30 Jan 2024, at 17:26, James Coffey wrote: Two questions: Whenever I use BusyContacts to send a message, mailmate defaults to an MS Exchange email and I would prefer to use my gmail account. Is there a way to set a default for that rather than mailmate selecting the send address? Also,

Re: [MlMt] Threads and Sent Messages

2024-01-10 Thread Glenn Parker
Devyn, I think you and I have similar mail browsing styles. I have enabled the preference to store sent messages with their replies, because I have a bunch of distinct IMAP folders for various parts of my email universe. I want to be able to browse the full set of messages for one category,

Re: [MlMt] address book

2023-11-25 Thread Glenn Parker
On 21 Nov 2023, at 14:00, Espresso Saarinen wrote: mailmate seems to have an internal address book. it is causing embarrassing mis-addressing. how do i find it and adjust its attitude? MailMate uses the Mac OS’s Contacts database, but it also has an extra auto-complete function that

Re: [MlMt] How to create folder which contains some Smart Mailboxes?

2023-08-24 Thread Glenn Parker
On 23 Aug 2023, at 22:31, leo wrote: On 24 Aug 2023, at 0:47, Glenn Parker wrote: On 23 Aug 2023, at 5:11, leo wrote: *How do I create a logical folder which then can contain some Smart Mailboxes?* Create a new folder (“IMAP Mailbox”) by right-clicking on the desired parent folder

Re: [MlMt] How to create folder which contains some Smart Mailboxes?

2023-08-23 Thread Glenn Parker
On 23 Aug 2023, at 5:11, leo wrote: Hi there Done it before, but I cannot figure it out anymore: *How do I create a logical folder which then can contain some Smart Mailboxes?* I know it is possible, because I can see that I have done it before: Create a new folder (“IMAP Mailbox”) by

Re: [MlMt] Default search field per folder

2023-08-18 Thread Glenn Parker
On 17 Aug 2023, at 12:05, Alexandre Takacs wrote: Hello Is there a way / hidden preference to setup the default search field proposed when performing a custom search. Typically I’d like to have “From” / “contains” / when on my inbox but “To” / “contains” / when on my sent items

Re: [MlMt] Sending

2023-07-11 Thread Glenn Parker
On 10 Jul 2023, at 12:24, Matthias Schmidt via mailmate wrote: Hello, I’m using the last built (5965) and noticed, sending an email takes much more time than before. On the mail server I don’t see anything, so my guess is, there’s something to look into ;-) Have you watched the Activity

Re: [MlMt] Improving search performance?

2023-06-26 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Jun 2023, at 10:59, Robert M. Münch wrote: Using a classical database with indexes and the mail information MM recognizes put into columns, should give mostly instant answers. The validity of this assertion will depend on a lot of factors, including the size and content of the email

Re: [MlMt] local folders

2023-05-30 Thread Glenn Parker
Pierre, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to document your experience so thoroughly and concisely. With unix-ish tools, instructions for setting up a system utility like an IMAP server often require (seemingly minor) updates in a few places, but once they’re set up and running,

Re: [MlMt] Migrating MM

2023-05-06 Thread Glenn Parker
On 3 May 2023, at 10:08, davecc wrote: > I’m creating a new boot volume (Catalina) and doing a minimal, manual > migration of needed apps. > > I downloaded MM from thr Freron server. > > I copied > ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate > > from the old boot volume (Sierra) to the new boot

Re: [MlMt] How are Draft emails supposed to be used/opened/edited between apps?

2023-04-27 Thread Glenn Parker
Harry, I wouldn’t expect much interoperability between MailMate and other mail applications, at least with respect to unsent emails that use markdown formatting. MailMate has a proprietary composition system based on markdown for new messages. Furthermore, MailMate does not support

Re: [MlMt] Running MailMate simultaneously in two locations

2023-04-26 Thread Glenn Parker
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

Re: [MlMt] address book

2023-04-24 Thread Glenn Parker
On 24 Apr 2023, at 13:05, Randy Bush wrote: latest ventura mailmate Version 1.14 (5964) message addressing does not seem to use my mac addrss book. what am i misunderstanding? I’m on Monterey 12.6.5 with MailMate 5964. Address completion in a compose window works for me. What are your

[MlMt] Running MailMate simultaneously in two locations

2023-04-24 Thread Glenn Parker
I use MailMate on two computers in two physically separate locations. Each instance of MailMate uses a similar set of rules on my primary INBOX to relocate certain incoming email into dedicated folders. For example, the messages from this MailMate forum are directed into a MailMate folder. I

Re: [MlMt] avoid quoting making fixed width reply?

2023-04-15 Thread Glenn Parker
On 14 Apr 2023, at 3:09, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: possible or am talking crazy? Sorry, but you may be mis-interpreting how the email text quoting system works. Below is the text you supplied before, now quoted by MailMate. It looks fine to me in the preview window, even though it is broken

Re: [MlMt] Chatgpt or other AI integration

2023-03-26 Thread Glenn Parker
One possible way to get an AI to prepare an answer for you is to use a natural language generation (NLG) system that can take your input and generate a response based on some parameters. For example, you can specify the tone, length and format of the desired answer, and the system will try to

Re: [MlMt] Address matching is too fast

2023-03-23 Thread Glenn Parker
You don’t mention which version of MailMate you’re using, but in 5960, and pretty much as far back as I can remember, address auto-completion will wait forever for me to take action. The only way for me to complete an address is to hit TAB or ENTER. Otherwise it just sits there with the

Re: [MlMt] problems

2023-03-23 Thread Glenn Parker
On 23 Mar 2023, at 11:02, aisrael wrote: I recently encountered 2 problems (one of them being in fact pretty old). I started deleting mailboxes from the server, and for one of the mailboxes I received the following warning (attached). I clicked on Retry, or Take mailbox offline, but to no

Re: [MlMt] counter badge color adjustment?

2023-03-22 Thread Glenn Parker
On 22 Mar 2023, at 15:37, Tracy Valleau wrote: I looked and could not find a way to change the color of the little menu-bar "dot". I use one to show that there are unread messages. For years it has been red with a white number. Now it's orange, and the white number is almost unreadable.

Re: [MlMt] disabling gifs in received mail

2023-03-21 Thread Glenn Parker
On 21 Mar 2023, at 11:08, Shoshanna Green wrote: I've just received a message from a company that includes, in its signature, an embedded gif (as a cid). Please, please tell me there's a way to stop it from playing endlessly when I have the message open? Things moving on my screen when I

Re: [MlMt] missing email from gmail account on one Mac

2023-03-19 Thread Glenn Parker
On 19 Mar 2023, at 13:16, Andrew Luk via mailmate wrote: First and foremost, I am not a seasoned user of Mailmate, so pardon my dumb question FYI, questions like this are perfect for this forum. I have discovered that I can see some gmail email on my Mac mini but not on the MBP. I even do a

Re: [MlMt] white numbers in menu bar counter

2023-03-18 Thread Glenn Parker
So far 5957 runs smoothly for me, but I did want to comment on a related side issue. I tried launching MailMate from a terminal (iTerm), the same way Bill did below. I kept getting a popup that said I hadn’t granted access to Contacts for MailMate. The popup even offered to open System

Re: [MlMt] white numbers in menu bar counter

2023-03-14 Thread Glenn Parker
Here is what a piece of my menubar looks like, with some useful context. ![](cid:26CDF4A3-D205-4A2C-B509-BEFE070413A8@comcast.net "Screen Shot 2023-03-14 at 23.49.33.png") On 14 Mar 2023, at 16:45, Henry Seiden wrote: Glenn, Mine are black on grey and I’m happy with that. Attached 6K file.

Re: [MlMt] Ghost messages in Drafts folder

2023-03-14 Thread Glenn Parker
On 13 Mar 2023, at 5:02, Karl Erik Jessen wrote: it is not a feature I would expect in a mail-CLIENT. In my mind it only makes sense in a mail-SERVERs The logic doesn’t work that way, though, because once an SMTP server receives a message, it’s on its way. The only way to have precise

Re: [MlMt] white numbers in menu bar counter

2023-03-14 Thread Glenn Parker
On 14 Mar 2023, at 10:37, Shoshanna Green wrote: Just updated to 5950 on my iMac running Big Sur 11.7.2, and the number in my menu bar counter has turned white, which makes it impossible to read against the light gray of the menu bar itself. Is there a way to adjust this? (I tried all four

Re: [MlMt] counter colors

2023-01-23 Thread Glenn Parker
On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote: > But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would suggest > quitting MailMate, making a copy of > ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy directly in > a reliable text editor such as BBEdit… You could try

Re: [MlMt] 5933: Dragging files into a folder => files are locked (immutable set)

2023-01-23 Thread Glenn Parker
setting under the hood for the pros, so that’s great, too. On 20 Jan 2023, at 3:06, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 12 Jan 2023, at 2:52, Glenn Parker wrote: I think “it’s a feature, not a bug”, as they say. Well, then that's an awful non-intuitive feature, reducing productivity and annoying me

Re: [MlMt] counter colors

2023-01-23 Thread Glenn Parker
On 8 Jan 2023, at 20:10, Randy Bush wrote: how does one choose the color of the counters in the menu bar? I don’t believe there is a user-friendly way to do this. However, as with practically everything else in MailMate, there is a hidden configuration setting. Examining the output of

Re: [MlMt] tags and the correspondence window

2023-01-15 Thread Glenn Parker
On 14 Jan 2023, at 15:38, Guy Middleton wrote: Yes but there could be many threads and it’s too much work to open them one by one. Is there a way to expand all the threads in the window at once? CMD-A to select all (visible) messages, then OPT-[Right Arrow] to completely expand all selected

Re: [MlMt] 5933: Dragging files into a folder => files are locked (immutable set)

2023-01-11 Thread Glenn Parker
On 7 Jan 2023, at 7:35, Robert M. Münch wrote: I see this effect I think since I use 5933. I do exactly the same as in the past, but now is looks like files are somehow locked by MM. Checking the file attributes I see that the *Immutable* flag is set. Is this a known problem? How to

Re: [MlMt] Increase quoting level only quotes first line if line is wrapped

2022-11-21 Thread Glenn Parker
On 16 Nov 2022, at 6:47, Patrik Fältström via mailmate wrote: Is this just me? It would help if you include the version of MailMate you are using. If I am editing a mail in plain text that include as much text between line breaks that there are line wraps, increase quoting level fails for

Re: [MlMt] Latest normal release?

2022-11-11 Thread Glenn Parker
On 6 Nov 2022, at 7:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: That's a very good question, but I don't really have a good answer. I'm to blame for this (as with all things related to MailMate). The starting point was major changes to the message view of MailMate which then cascaded into other parts of

Re: [MlMt] Colors in mailbox menu

2022-11-01 Thread Glenn Parker
On 30 Oct 2022, at 23:07, RANDY ABBOTT wrote: What keyword should I use in the Styles.plist file to color unread messages in a mailbox? I tried \\Unseen but that doesn't seem to work. You’ll have to do the opposite using the \\Seen keyword. Here is my Styles.plist, which turns messages gray

Re: [MlMt] Colors in mailbox menu

2022-10-28 Thread Glenn Parker
On 26 Oct 2022, at 17:19, Simon Kaplan wrote: In today’s release (5923) Benny says | New: On macOS 11+, the Mailbox menu includes a “Symbol” menu to make it easy to change the mailbox symbol used. The release notes for 5924 further add: New: Added tip to use the SF Symbols app to browse

Re: [MlMt] Block some adresses from "smart guess"

2022-10-20 Thread Glenn Parker
On 18 Oct 2022, at 5:58, Alexandre Takacs wrote: I don’t think it is possible but is there a way to block a specific (or even better list of specific) addresses from coming up in the “smart” auto complete suggestion algorithm ? Once you have entered the email address and it is in a blue

Re: [MlMt] Neet help for the query language in MailMate

2022-10-12 Thread Glenn Parker
On 10 Oct 2022, at 8:23, Mike Brasch wrote: I don't really understand what the above query does. I think I had copied it from the mailing list here a long time ago. Is this a known query language? Can I read about it somewhere? And how do I know what the possible queryable attributes are?

Re: [MlMt] MacOS 13 Ventura

2022-09-07 Thread Glenn Parker
On 5 Sep 2022, at 10:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 2 Sep 2022, at 18:02, Joseph P. Hillenburg wrote: Has Mailmate been tested on Ventura? Will a new build be necessary? I did borrow a Ventura-capable machine a few weeks ago and then installed Ventura on an external disk to see if there

Re: [MlMt] r5907 and Group Address completion

2022-08-17 Thread Glenn Parker
On 22 Jul 2022, at 12:12, Glenn P. Parker wrote: I have also noticed some odd behavior with address group completion. For me, a particular group of 10 addresses gets doubled (the entire group is repeated) every time. However, a larger group of about 15 or so consistently expands correctly.

Re: [MlMt] MM crashes often on M1 macbook pro

2022-08-15 Thread Glenn Parker
No crashes on my M1 iMac here. You can hold down the option-key with the “MailMate” menu to access “Check for Test Build”. This will offer you a quick upgrade to the latest build (5910 as of today). There are some other non-critical issues with this build, but it’s very stable. For other

Re: [MlMt] Link for viewing attachments

2022-08-15 Thread Glenn Parker
On 12 Aug 2022, at 15:04, Antonio Leding wrote: >> “What were you able to do with the older interface which you cannot do now?” > > Functionally, there is no change but UX wise, it is different. It was nice > to just click on the attachment filename and have it open as a preview > without

Re: [MlMt] Choose direction of next highlight on archive or delete

2022-06-29 Thread Glenn Parker
On 27 Jun 2022, at 15:15, Michael Friedlander wrote: When I archive or delete a message from the current folder, Mailmate selects “up” (ie, the next latest msg, given the ascending-date sort I have set). Is there a way to reverse this default, so that Mailmate selects “down”? This behavior

[MlMt] Searching on attachment filenames

2022-06-01 Thread Glenn Parker
Is anyone else able to get reliable search results on attachment filenames in MailMate? I have an IMAP folder that contains some messages with an attached file called “Attachment.ics” (standard Zoom calendar invite). If I just search for “A ics”, I only see messages from year 2020 and

Re: [MlMt] Attachments list to bottom?

2022-04-26 Thread Glenn Parker
On 21 Apr 2022, at 10:05, Charlie Clark wrote: > On 21 Apr 2022, at 14:36, John Hughes via mailmate wrote: > >> I didn’t see a reply to Quinn’s question so is there a solution to this? I’m >> using version 5852. > > I don't think so. Ideally, we need something a bit like the "tray" used when >

Re: [MlMt] Crashing on printing with r5876 and r5881

2022-04-01 Thread Glenn Parker
Just a gentle reminder that if you are experiencing MailMate crashes (especially with a “beta” release), it would be best to report it using “Send Feedback…” under MailMate’s Help menu. You’ll get Benny’s attention much faster, and the command inserts some useful system information in the

Re: [MlMt] How to disable copying text as Markdown?

2022-01-27 Thread Glenn Parker
On 27 Jan 2022, at 14:54, Quinn Comendant wrote: Thanks for this info, it should be a welcome change. Do you know when rev 5861 will be released? When I run *Check for Update* it says, “5852 is the latest version available. You have version 5853.” Quinn, The most recent beta release is

Re: [MlMt] edit past addresses

2021-11-26 Thread Glenn Parker
On 26 Nov 2021, at 12:41, John Cooper wrote: Glenn Parker wrote (at 9:20 AM on Friday, Nov 26, 2021): Second, you can add previously seen addresses to MailMate’s blacklist by right-clicking on the address and choosing the “Add to Blacklist” action. Once an address is blacklisted, it won’t

Re: [MlMt] edit past addresses

2021-11-26 Thread Glenn Parker
On 26 Nov 2021, at 7:47, Thomas Bartlett via mailmate wrote: When I compose a new message to be sent, as I begin to type a dropdown list of previously used addresses appears. Some of them are incorrect and I’d like to edit the list. I’m sure there’s a simple way to do that, but I don’t know

Re: [MlMt] alert sounds

2021-10-17 Thread Glenn Parker
On 15 Oct 2021, at 10:15, Shoshanna Green wrote: > I have been completely unable to figure out where this sound is coming from, > so that I can turn it off. Any ideas? Please? Is it possible there is a different mail app triggering these notifications? Glenn P. Parker glenn.par...@comcast.net

Re: [MlMt] Benny updated the test build changelog

2021-10-07 Thread Glenn Parker
On 7 Oct 2021, at 12:30, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: This is also correct, but I do believe the latest test release is reasonably stable. For now, it's available on the test-release branch (available when holding down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane) for

Re: [MlMt] Apple-F doesn't function as expected if message window is open

2021-09-22 Thread Glenn Parker
On 16 Sep 2021, at 11:50, Eric Sharakan wrote: Ed, you're absolutely right; I just reproduced it. And it doesn't matter whether you use the keyboard shortcut or the 'Edit->Find->Find...' menu item, it still collapses the window as described. This is a known bug, and Benny made a couple of

Re: [MlMt] Switching to Fastmail: some questions

2021-07-27 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Jul 2021, at 13:10, Ralph Alvy wrote: > Thanks Philip. I was told by tech support that syncing with Google contacts > is in the works for a future release. No ETA. FWIW I found the following by googling “fastmail google address book sync”:

Re: [MlMt] Signatures not working as expected

2021-07-27 Thread Glenn Parker
On 27 Jul 2021, at 8:49, Glenn Parker wrote: On 26 Jul 2021, at 13:20, Annamarie Pluhar wrote: Not all my signatures are showing up as choices - nor are the signatures that I’ve assigned to addresses working. [Here](https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3ef6gkc05fkfnf/Signature%20preferences.png?dl=0

Re: [MlMt] Signatures not working as expected

2021-07-27 Thread Glenn Parker
On 26 Jul 2021, at 13:20, Annamarie Pluhar wrote: Not all my signatures are showing up as choices - nor are the signatures that I’ve assigned to addresses working. [Here](https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3ef6gkc05fkfnf/Signature%20preferences.png?dl=0) is what I have set up in preferences.

Re: [MlMt] Rule to Download Attachment automatically?

2021-07-24 Thread Glenn Parker
On 24 Jul 2021, at 16:15, Alex Fazio via mailmate wrote: > Hi there, I’m looking for a solution to automate my attachments. > > I would like to set a rule to download attachments with a specific extension > automatically to a specific directory. > > Is that possible? Alex, I don’t think

Re: [MlMt] Switching to Fastmail: some questions

2021-07-22 Thread Glenn Parker
On 22 Jul 2021, at 13:13, Ralph Alvy wrote: 2. I see that Fastmail has its own Contacts module, but that doesn't support synchronization with Google Contacts. Will I need to import my Google Contacts into Fastmail Contacts for Mailmate to see my Contacts when composing a message? Or does

Re: [MlMt] Follow Up to Email Concerns

2021-07-03 Thread Glenn Parker
I wanted to quickly thank the users who offered patient and helpful responses to my challenge. The use of email accounts as the foundation of “internet identity” seems to be the most significant issue, and I certainly understand the kind of disasters that can result from a compromised an email

Re: [MlMt] Follow Up to Email Concerns

2021-06-29 Thread Glenn Parker
I would be interested in a deeper discussion of the actual security threats that all this awkward 2FA/OAuth2/whatever are meant to address. I mean, I certainly understand the basic need for authentication (and encrypted transmission) to limit access to private information, but it seems like

Re: [MlMt] Choosing fonts and sizes

2021-05-14 Thread Glenn Parker
On 14 May 2021, at 1:02, davecc wrote: I did that. Today’s emails still say “Today”. Before I migrated to Big Sur, today’s messages showed a time in that column. I’m running MailMate v5798 under Big Sur 11.3.1. This is what the Date Sent column looks like for me:

Re: [MlMt] Choosing fonts and sizes

2021-05-13 Thread Glenn Parker
On 13 May 2021, at 23:06, Dave C wrote: Anyone know the name of the font used in the Mailboxes menu? Do you mean the main menubar menu and popup menus? Those are controlled by the OS and are not customizable (at least not by MailMate). If you mean the listing of mailbox sources and folders

Re: [MlMt] Memory usage

2021-05-11 Thread Glenn Parker
On 11 May 2021, at 15:23, Randall Meadows wrote: On 11 May 2021, at 11:49, Tracy Valleau wrote: If not, and you are just archiving them, with only the need for infrequent access, you might want to consider something like MailSteward. https://mailsteward.com/ Interesting...I don't have

Re: [MlMt] Keyboard shortcuts for message-only window in r5800 are not working

2021-05-08 Thread Glenn Parker
On 8 May 2021, at 19:02, Mike Alexander wrote: I think the problem is not keyboard shortcuts as such, but the next/previous command in single message windows. Nope, sorry, but this is just broken behavior that is definitely not broken in the prior release. Glenn P. Parker

Re: [MlMt] How can I delete attachments of a message

2021-05-04 Thread Glenn Parker
On 4 May 2021, at 21:14, leo wrote: Hi there I am pretty sure I have done this before, but I cannot figure it out now: How do I delete attachments of a message? I think in IMAP this involves copying the message without entattchments and deleting the old one, but I don’t know how to do it

[MlMt] Keyboard shortcuts for message-only window in r5800 are not working

2021-05-03 Thread Glenn Parker
I’m running BigSur 11.2.3, and I thought I would try out the latest r5800 release (yes, I’m a glutton for punishment). I prefer a 2-pane configuration so I can open each message in a separate window. With a message window active, it seems like the keyboard navigation shortcuts (e.g. “j” for

Re: [MlMt] App execs disabled rules

2021-04-29 Thread Glenn Parker
On 29 Apr 2021, at 21:19, Antonio Leding wrote: Did a little more digging and this definitely appears to be a defect... Basically, there 2 situations where despite selection criteria being disabled, the app still applies the actions to either **all selected messages** or just **all

Re: [MlMt] Save attachments from multiple messages at once

2021-04-19 Thread Glenn Parker
On 19 Apr 2021, at 10:11, Stephan Kleiber via mailmate wrote: Hi there, I’d like to save attachments from multiple messages at once to a specific location on my hard drive. My guess is that it should be as easy as selecting the messages and then use „Save Attachments…“ from the context

Re: [MlMt] Message count

2021-04-12 Thread Glenn Parker
On 12 Apr 2021, at 23:29, Andrew Buc wrote: When you collapse a folder in Mail, the bubble by the folder name shows the total number of messages in the folder and its subfolders, as per the attached. In MM, this doesn’t happen; I have to expand the folder to know whether the individual

Re: [MlMt] Prospective user: Possible to use MM in separate window mode?

2021-04-05 Thread Glenn Parker
On 5 Apr 2021, at 15:31, David Green wrote: On 5 Apr 2021, at 13:52, ch wrote: I really, really dislike the one-window three-pane email standard - it drives me bonkers. I'm someone who likes to see everything at once. My office looks like chaos, but I know in which pile and how far down

Re: [MlMt] Return-Path when sending message using an alias

2021-03-30 Thread Glenn Parker
On 30 Mar 2021, at 8:49, Bill Cole wrote: On 30 Mar 2021, at 8:13, Glenn Parker wrote: I think the answer is yes, but MailMate can't ask Gmail to do it on MailMate's behalf. MailMate needs to do what Gmail does, which is to contact the "alternate" SMTP servers directly to transmi

Re: [MlMt] Return-Path when sending message using an alias

2021-03-30 Thread Glenn Parker
I think the answer is yes, but MailMate can't ask Gmail to do it on MailMate's behalf. MailMate needs to do what Gmail does, which is to contact the "alternate" SMTP servers directly to transmit the mail from a different account. You will need to configure MailMate to have a full account for

Re: [MlMt] Utterly baffled by Mailing Lists

2021-03-26 Thread Glenn Parker
On 26 Mar 2021, at 5:28, Paul Atlan wrote: I’m trying to sort my mailing lists into something halfway manageable and readable. If I use the “out of the box” Mailing List mailbox, with the following settings: Sort for unique values of List-id > description And name mailboxes as:

Re: [MlMt] Templates

2021-03-09 Thread Glenn Parker
On 9 Mar 2021, at 11:28, Charlie Clark wrote: Hiya everyone, I have some tasks, mainly writing bills, where I could benefit from templates (to stop me making some of the silly mistakes I always seem to make). Anyone else have similar, ahem, problems? If so, what do you do? Message->Edit

Re: [MlMt] Key Bindings for Smart Folder

2021-02-24 Thread Glenn Parker
On 24 Feb 2021, at 15:07, Lisa Sieverts wrote: Hi Todd, Whenever I’ve had trouble, it’s been a misplaced semi-colon or parenthesis or something like that. Stare at your code until you can see what’s different about the code you wrote compared to what was already there. Or paste it and

Re: [MlMt] Select Duplicates menu item always grayed out

2021-02-19 Thread Glenn Parker
On 19 Feb 2021, at 9:47, Eric Sharakan wrote: Hi, I'm running r5757 and want to try to find and eliminate some duplicate messages, but no matter what mailbox or set of messages I select, the 'Edit->Select Duplicates' menu item remains grayed out. Anyone else seeing this issue, or know how

Re: [MlMt] have the headers stay on top when scrolling?

2021-02-17 Thread Glenn Parker
On 17 Feb 2021, at 7:20, Jolin Warren wrote: For everyone whose headers do not stay in place: Is this in a separate message viewer window, or are you seeing this in the viewing pane in a three-pane view? My headers scroll with the message. I normally use a separate message window, but it’s

Re: [MlMt] Removing email from Blacklist

2021-02-10 Thread Glenn Parker
On 10 Feb 2021, at 13:58, Esteban Umerez wrote: Hi, Glenn, I may be wrong, since I’m only an average user, but I don’t have that problem, in my case MailMate is consistent in autocompleting addresses from Apple Contacts. I went to MailMate Settings and found that, under the Composer tab,

Re: [MlMt] Removing email from Blacklist

2021-02-10 Thread Glenn Parker
On 10 Feb 2021, at 4:46, Martin S Taylor wrote: Thanks. While we're here, what exactly does Blacklist-ing an address do? I know it prevents autocomplete, but is that all it does? Yes, that’s all it does. It could certainly have used a more specific name, such as

Re: [MlMt] Removing email from Blacklist

2021-02-09 Thread Glenn Parker
On 9 Feb 2021, at 17:13, Martin S Taylor wrote: If I've blacklisted an email address by mistake, how can I remove it from the blacklist? Using your favorite text editor (e.g., TextEdit) open this file: ~/Library/Application Support/Mailmate/Blacklist.plist NB: the “~” is your home

Re: [MlMt] Skull  emoji in the From header

2021-01-31 Thread Glenn Parker
On 30 Jan 2021, at 20:32, m...@rhp.tw wrote: Thank you everyone for the answers. Now that I know the reason, I think it is a great feature. FYI if you change your mind about this feature, you can disable it with the following command from a Terminal: defaults write com.freron.MailMate

Re: [MlMt] Local email archiving status/options?

2021-01-25 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Jan 2021, at 3:30, Fredrik Jonsson wrote: 4) Just want to confirm: does MM get its address book from MacOS? Yes. I would clarify that MM pulls address from the Mac’s Contacts database, but also from the headers of existing mail messages in a (smart) folder that you specify under the

Re: [MlMt] Crash when accessing "Open with"

2021-01-18 Thread Glenn Parker
On 18 Jan 2021, at 14:51, Mark Wadham wrote: I have a repeatable crash in version 1.13.2 of Mailmate. If I right click on any attachment and select "open with" it hangs for a few seconds trying to load the context menu and then crashes. If I do the same thing in the Finder it shows the

Re: [MlMt] A way to react on incoming messages?

2021-01-03 Thread Glenn Parker
On 3 Jan 2021, at 9:02, Robert M. Münch wrote: Hi, is it possible to react to incoming messages? Like a plug-in where all received messages are run through? Such a plug-in could check for specific mails, and send a notification to some chat system, etc. With this, it would be possible to

Re: [MlMt] hover over link to view it?

2020-12-31 Thread Glenn Parker
On 31 Dec 2020, at 10:12, Shoshanna Green wrote: Huh -- I'm on 5757 and I'm not seeing it, and haven't for ages. I'm talking not about links where the URL is explicitly shown in the message text, as in Guillaume's message, but about encoded text links, such as in daily news summaries from

Re: [MlMt] Quote only selected text in reply?

2020-12-27 Thread Glenn Parker
On 27 Dec 2020, at 23:55, Bob Stern via mailmate wrote: most email clients will quote in the reply only the selected text rather than the entire message That’s what I just did. It works as expected. Glenn P. Parker glenn.par...@comcast.net ___

Re: [MlMt] Alias mailing list

2020-12-09 Thread Glenn Parker
On 9 Dec 2020, at 11:10, Charlie Clark wrote: I'm not sure why you need another app: Contacts is linked with my Google account (I don't use G-mail, just the address book and the calendar) along with an Exchange server and MailMate can read them both. Well, I was unable to get email groups

Re: [MlMt] Alias mailing list

2020-12-09 Thread Glenn Parker
On 9 Dec 2020, at 6:26, aisrael wrote: The answer to my question is probably obvious, but I could not find it in the forum archives : Can I create an alias for a mailing list directly in Mailmate, or should I do it in the Contacts (which I don’t use normally), or on the server? It’s a

Re: [MlMt] Bugs in 5748

2020-12-06 Thread Glenn Parker
On 6 Dec 2020, at 14:52, Raza Rizvi wrote: Since 5726, if I attempt to save an attachment in a message using the Folder icon displayed within the message the application crashes BUT I can use Message/Save Attachments without issue. FWIW, I cannot reproduce this under 5748 on macOS Catalina

Re: [MlMt] Finding rules

2020-11-25 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Nov 2020, at 13:14, Charlie Clark wrote: On 25 Nov 2020, at 16:18, Glenn Parker wrote: Rules are stored in ~/Library/Application\\ Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist You can open it with TextEdit and search for “rule”. Probably safest to do this when MailMate is not running, or make

Re: [MlMt] Finding rules

2020-11-25 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Nov 2020, at 8:15, Charlie Clark wrote: Hiya everyone, is there a simple way within MailMate to show all the rules? I've got a couple I want to edit and I can't remember which mailbox/folder I created them on. I assume there is a settings file I can use but thought there might also

Re: [MlMt] Getting started with MailMate

2020-11-22 Thread Glenn Parker
On 22 Nov 2020, at 15:46, Andrew Buc wrote: I think I’ll need to upgrade from my current 2GB plan to the 30GB plan. I noodled around with MailMate a few years ago, and ISTR that there was an option to import my entire Apple Mail database into MailMate, although I didn’t actually do it. I

Re: [MlMt] Alert sending from email address?

2020-11-03 Thread Glenn Parker
On 3 Nov 2020, at 18:08, Jim Armitage wrote: Thanks, but I don’t see any difference between your quoting and mine. Where do you see the difference? I tried copying/pasting yours anyway (changing the email of course) and still no go. The only difference I can see in the two versions is

Re: [MlMt] system alert sound randomly occurring when selecting messages in MM

2020-10-25 Thread Glenn Parker
On 25 Oct 2020, at 13:46, Lisa Sieverts wrote: Eric Sharakan said: Hi, has anyone else noticed this odd behavior: sometime MailMate will emit the system alert sound when I select certain messages for viewing. I don't see anything unusual about the messages it chooses to do this with, and

Re: [MlMt] MailMate and Time Machine

2020-10-23 Thread Glenn Parker
Sorry if this discussion seems to have gone down a rathole, but I do hope someone finds this useful. It’s possible that the Time Machine performance issues have nothing to do with MailMate. There have been many recent reports of issues with Time Machine after an OS upgrade. Below is a very

Re: [MlMt] MailMate and Time Machine

2020-10-22 Thread Glenn Parker
I came across this low-level approach to debugging Time Machine performance issues: https://medium.com/macoclock/time-machine-backups-too-slow-5ed1e5e347a4 I left for last the most complex, low-level debugging tool you have available allowing you to monitor your filesystem access in

Re: [MlMt] MailMate and Time Machine

2020-10-22 Thread Glenn Parker
On 22 Oct 2020, at 10:07, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: That's not the issue. I've excluded Database.noindex for years—it's very large, and because MailMate doesn't try to synchronize writes to it with changes to messages, it's not likely to be correct after a restore in any event. Let me restate

Re: [MlMt] MailMate and Time Machine

2020-10-21 Thread Glenn Parker
On 21 Oct 2020, at 13:56, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: I've had to disable Time Machine backups of the directories containing my IMAP messages—I was getting at most two backups per day because each one took so long. Some of it, I'm sure, is because I have about a million messages, but I don't

Re: [MlMt] Modifying the list of recipients - possible?

2020-10-13 Thread Glenn Parker
It's a bit counter-intuitive when composing a new message. You have to "accept" the auto-completion you don't want, then the pop-up menu becomes available to blacklist it, then you have to delete it manually. On October 13, 2020 09:21:32 "Bill Cole" wrote: On 13 Oct 2020, at 9:11, Raza

[MlMt] Composer signature options

2020-10-08 Thread Glenn Parker
On 8 Oct 2020, at 13:06, Glenn Parker wrote: I have to say that, even after staring at the UI in the Signature pane more than once, I simply had no idea that this was an option. I’m very glad to have learned. Thanks, Bill! The combination of the 2 radio buttons for Default signature

Re: [MlMt] Posting to this list

2020-10-08 Thread Glenn Parker
On 8 Oct 2020, at 11:06, Eric Sharakan wrote: On 8 Oct 2020, at 10:52, Bill Cole wrote: On 8 Oct 2020, at 9:32, Glenn Parker wrote: And yet, AFAIK MailMate has no support for bottom-posting replies in the composer window, which is frustrating. And yet, it does. It is not in the obvious

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