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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">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 realize there are other ways to manage this kind of thing in MailMate (isolating messages from email lists), but use a less sophisticated email client on my Android devices (AquaMail), and this style yields a fairly comfortable workflow for me across all my devices.</p>
<p dir="auto">I have found that I must be careful to avoid running my two MailMate instances at the same time. Otherwise they seem to get into a fight over who is going to execute the INBOX rules. When this happens, it typically generates a bunch of seemingly dire error messages from MailMate, and eventually causes MailMate to take one or more folders off-line.</p>
<p dir="auto">My points here are two-fold. First, if you try the same thing, don’t be too surprised if you run into some complications. So far, this has not resulted in any loss of email for me, but having a folder quietly go off-line while you’re not looking can be confusing.</p>
<p dir="auto">Second, I’d like to ask if MailMate could be more forgiving when it runs into this particular situation. That is to say, when moving messages between folders using automatic rules, if a message “disappears” during the operation, allow this to be treated as a soft error that can generate an (optional) warning, but don’t take any folders off-line.</p>
<p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker
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glenn.parker@comcast.net</p>
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