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<p dir="auto">On 9 Dec 2020, at 6:26, aisrael wrote:</p>
</div><div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">The answer to my question is probably obvious, but I could not find it in the forum archives :
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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?
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<p dir="auto">It’s a reasonable question because many other email clients provide their own integrated address books. MailMate simulates some of this by indexing the email addresses from (a subset of) existing email messages, but MailMate does not have its own address book. That means MailMate only knows about addresses in the <em>messages</em> it has already seen, and address groups are not readily captured that way.</p>
<p dir="auto">To complete the functionality, MailMate uses the Contacts application and its underlying database. You can see this in the MailMate Preferences under the Composer tab which offers three options for Auto-Completion, including “Contacts”.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is a limitation since, like you and many others, I don’t rely on the Mac’s Contacts application (or iCloud) to maintain my address book. Personally, I use the Google Contacts system, but obviously there are many options. Google Contacts supports the CardDAV protocol, and LDAP servers are common, but MailMate does not integrate directly with either of these yet.</p>
<p dir="auto">The solution I have settled on for now is a third party app called “Contacts Sync for Google Gmail” that supports one-way and full duplex synchronization between Google Contacts, the local Mac Contacts app (or iCloud Contacts).</p>
<p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker<br>
<a href="mailto:glenn.parker@comcast.net" style="color:#3983C4">glenn.parker@comcast.net</a></p>
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