Re: [MlMt] MM keeps demanding passwords

2022-03-08 Thread Ian Petersen
Randall, Is Benny aware of this? I don't know. But it has certainly been mentioned on this list several times through the years by other users. It's never really bothered me enough to file a bug report ... Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mai

Re: [MlMt] MM keeps demanding passwords

2022-03-08 Thread Ian Petersen
Randall, it pops up a dialog demanding the password for various accounts, claiming the password isn't in the keychain, which it is. I open Keychain Utility, copy the password to the clipboard, paste it into the box, and MM is happy for a while. Very annoying. My Mailmate has done that for ye

Re: [MlMt] Password popup box

2021-12-09 Thread Ian Petersen
Benny, Somehow MailMate misinterprets a repeated error as a possible password issue (server are not always good at telling the email client exactly what the problem is). First try updating to the latest beta of MailMate (in the Software Update preferences pane). For what it’s worth I have ex

Re: [MlMt] Best way to keep MailMate up-to-date

2021-09-07 Thread Ian Petersen
Charlie, > Release notes for the post September 2020 builds must be somewhere Release notes are in the help menu … ;-) Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Re: [MlMt] MailMate and M1?

2021-04-19 Thread Ian Petersen
TJ, although until recently they were all running under Rosetta. From the release notes: “The r5758-5797 releases all had arm64 (M1) support, but they were not directly available to r5757 users via the test release branch.” Cheers Ian ___ mailma

Re: [MlMt] MailMate and M1?

2021-04-19 Thread Ian Petersen
Pete, This is probably a stupid question but will MailMate work on a Mac Mini with an M1 chip? Yes, works fine (build 5789). Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Re: [MlMt] Messages marked as “read” in Version 1.14 (5757)

2021-02-18 Thread Ian Petersen
Rob, Is it just me? What do do have in Preferences > Viewer > Mark messages read after X seconds? You can either put a longer time e.g. 60 seconds or remove the tickmark altogether, which should make messages only be marked read manually. Cheers Ian __

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

2020-12-31 Thread Ian Petersen
Shoshanna, Maybe the lack of URL popups is due to my OS being behind the times? That’s a distinct possibility. I’m on 5757 on Big Sur. No doubt Benny would know … Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.

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

2020-12-31 Thread Ian Petersen
Shoshanna, I really miss being able to hover over a link in an email and see where it would send me. Might that feature return? Seems to be working fine here in 5757 … Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.frer

Re: [MlMt] Big Sur and 2.0 branch?

2020-12-17 Thread Ian Petersen
Steven, it's not showing up in Launchpad My MM shows up fine in Launchpad … not that I ever use Launchpad but Mailmate is there. ;-) Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Re: [MlMt] Big Sur and 2.0 branch?

2020-12-16 Thread Ian Petersen
Steven, Will I be able to install the latest beta from the 1.x branch without problems with configurations and databases? I moved from the 2.0 branch to the 1.X beta a couple of builds ago without any apparent mishaps. I’m on Big Sur as well. Cheers Ian _

Re: [MlMt] ]Line-spacing in HTML Mails I'm Sending

2020-07-30 Thread Ian Petersen
Steve, Can someone tell me how to adjust the outgoing template (css) to change the line-spacing on the html portion of outgoing mail? From the helpfile: **Hardcoded CSS** The default themes for generated HTML does not include a specific font, but simply states that it should be sans-serif

Re: [MlMt] Confused About Threading

2020-04-20 Thread Ian Petersen
Robert, Is it possible somehow to have an INBOX (or smart mailbox) that shows full threads while showing only those threads that touch the INBOX? In the ‘Examples’ folder that comes by default with a new MM installation there should be a smart mailbox called ‘Personal inbox with threading’.

Re: [MlMt] newbie question about folders

2020-01-28 Thread Ian Petersen
Glenn, That’s cute, but frankly it’s overly technical and not very user-friendly. I don’t see how using the correct term is not user friendly. Just because you happen to not have heard it before doesn’t make it wrong - I see MiB and kib as often as I see MB and kb nowadays. Remember Mailmat

Re: [MlMt] newbie question about folders

2020-01-28 Thread Ian Petersen
Glenn, BTW, another odd bit is the use of “MiB” and “KiB”. In English, “MiB” is most likely read as “Men In Black” (the movie). “Megabyte” is just “MB” (there’s not even an “i” in the word), and “Kilobyte” is just “KB”. Actually these are the correct ISO standard names for 1024 bytes or 102

Re: [MlMt] removing forwarding symbol ">"

2020-01-27 Thread Ian Petersen
Steve, Hmmm... I'm not seeing that behavior unless the message I'm redirecting already contains quotes. Yes you’re right, sorry. I’ll try to remember to redirect rather than forward then … Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron

Re: [MlMt] removing forwarding symbol ">"

2020-01-27 Thread Ian Petersen
Steve, That's a redirect. I have to admit I’ve never heard of a redirect before. But choosing ‘redirect’ in Mailmate’s menu seems to also add quotes to the ‘redirected’ message. So that doesn’t really help … Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list

Re: [MlMt] removing forwarding symbol ">"

2020-01-27 Thread Ian Petersen
Charlie, E-mails have historically used quoting and indentation to provide context when replying to e-mails. Yes, but a forward is not the same as a reply. I too would prefer that forwarded messages didn’t quote the forwarded message - or change it in any way. Cheers Ian __

Re: [MlMt] prevent ESC exit fullscreen

2020-01-12 Thread Ian Petersen
Andrey, Doesn't this issue bother anyone else? Not really. But the default ‘go back to last view’ is `Cmd+Ctrl+[` or `Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+(`. Maybe that is better than using `Esc`? Take a look at the *Custom Keybindings* section of the MailMate helpfile if you want to remap the keybindings. Che

Re: [MlMt] UK email provider recommendations

2019-11-27 Thread Ian Petersen
I can warmly recommend [Runbox](https://runbox.com) based in Norway. They seem to take security and privacy seriously and are GDPR compliant etc. Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Re: [MlMt] Ignore or fix Runbox marking email as spam

2019-04-15 Thread Ian Petersen
Ron, > What is the easiest and/or best fix for this problem? You might want to take a look at Runbox's filtering options - see https://help.runbox.com/filter/ I use Runbox too and generally find their spam-filtering pretty good. You can 'train' it to your specific needs using their webmail in

Re: [MlMt] Abandoning a mail account--how to keep old messages?

2019-01-25 Thread Ian Petersen
Dave, I’d like to keep a copy of these. Is there a way? Just drag and drop them into an account you do want to keep. That worked for me when I got rid of my Gmail accounts a year or so ago. Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.frero

Re: [MlMt] Non MM related question about email hosting and web hosting

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Petersen
Bharath, For static site hosting try [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com). They seem do know what they are doing. Very popular amongst the [Hugo](https://gohugo.io) crowd which is probably the best of the static site generators I know of. For email hosting I can warmly recommend [Runbox](http

Re: [MlMt] Customize reply marker / tag / text

2018-12-08 Thread Ian Petersen
Philip, Good mailers just have one "Re: ". No "whatever". *Whatever* can be different language variants. In Danish it is ’Sv: ’ (short for Svar) for example, which is perfectly valid – even in reply to an English language mail. Still only one of them of course … Cheers Ian ___

Re: [MlMt] Deleting duplicate sent mails - rule

2018-10-28 Thread Ian Petersen
John, When I send an e-mail message, I get two messages in my sent mailbox Yes, I see this too on my work mail which uses Outlook/Office365. Been meaning to mention it. Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.f

Re: [MlMt] Prevent displaying content of multiple messages?

2018-10-24 Thread Ian Petersen
John, What does "put this in terminal" mean? Open the *Terminal* App (in Applications > Utilities) and enter the relevant command - in this case ‘defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmMaximumMessagesDisplayed -integer 1’ - then press enter. Cheers Ian ___

Re: [MlMt] Forwarding as attachment corrupts attachments (in some cases).

2018-05-09 Thread Ian Petersen
Scott, Is it just me? No, not just you. I’ve always had problems with recipients on Outlook/Office365 not being able to save attachments from my mails or open attachments from forwarded mails (not necessarily forwarded as attachments). But this problem, in my experience, is not limited to M

Re: [MlMt] Is there a way to keep all threads expanded?

2018-04-19 Thread Ian Petersen
Benny, I would like to have MailMate auto-expand threads by default. [ … ] I cannot think of any way to achieve this with current features. I do have a todo item for this and I'll note that I've got an additional request for it. Make that two additional requests … ;-) Cheers Ian

Re: [MlMt] Archive oddities

2018-04-16 Thread Ian Petersen
Eric, Right click on that mailbox to open the contextual menu, then under "Mailbox Type", select Archive Ah! That seems to have worked … Thanks! Cheers Ian ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmat

[MlMt] Archive oddities

2018-04-15 Thread Ian Petersen
My IMAP account (on Runbox) has, as usual, an *Archive* folder. I also have had an *Archives* (with an S) folder containing yearly archive folders thus: ``` ├── Archive └── Archives ├── 2016 ├── 2017 └── 2015 ``` So the current year’s mail gets archived in the *Archive* folder and

Re: [MlMt] Force compose in tab

2018-02-16 Thread Ian Petersen
Compass Luca, Is it possible to force Mailmate compose messages in tabs instead of a separate window ? Hmm, my mailmate always opens the compose window in a tab - which I find rather annoying actually. I’ve discovered that it opens the compose window in a tab when the application is full scr

Re: [MlMt] Moving providers

2018-02-15 Thread Ian Petersen
David, I can put in a recommendation for Runbox Haha! Too late. After not really all that much deliberation I have already chosen Runbox. They seem to know what they are doing by all accounts, my mail is already on their servers. They have a nice import feature that hoovered all my mail (ab

Re: [MlMt] A couple of newbie issues

2017-10-18 Thread Ian Petersen
Benny, I thought I once added a hidden preference for this, but I don't seem to be able to locate it. In other words, it's not (currently) optional. You can of course request it if you like :) Consider it requested! ;-) Personally, I prefer “in-between” replies like this, but one of the mos