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<p dir="auto">On 15 Sep 2014, at 15:56, my good friend Jeremy Cowgar wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">However, I can never make this work. I copy that line directly, paste it into the console and all executes fine. I can even "read" it back, and all is good.</p>
<p dir="auto">% defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmReplyWroteString -string 'On %e %b %Y, at %k:%M, my good friend ${from.name:${from.address}} wrote:'</p>
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<p dir="auto">Seems to work for me as seen above.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Now, once I start mail mate, I execute:</p>
<p dir="auto">% defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmReplyWroteString</p>
<p dir="auto">and defaults returns to me an error:</p>
<p dir="auto">2014-09-15 09:54:52.734 defaults[2365:507]<br>
The domain/default pair of (/Volumes/My HD/Users/jeremy/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate, MmReplyWroteString) does not exist</p>
<p dir="auto">Any thoughts on how I can make this work?</p>
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<p dir="auto">That looks strange. MailMate has no code that clears this setting. Do other settings stick between launches of MailMate? (You could just try the same as above with <code>MmDummySetting</code>.)</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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