[MlMt] sync mailmate settings

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Thu Apr 11 11:52:27 EDT 2013


[ CAVEAT: I've been doing way too much troubleshooting of user Outlook 
issues recently... ]

On 11 Apr 2013, at 6:56, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> I would say that MailMate has no way to sync if it's not part of IMAP 
> :-)

This quip actually suggests a way you could copy a trick from Outlook. 
When using MAPI (i.e. with Exchange or the quixotic MAPI<->IMAP shims 
for other servers like CGP) it stores customized view settings for each 
folder on the server. While I don't like that particular use (screen 
size matters!) it would be nice to have a way to keep smart folders, key 
bindings, and custom header formats in synch between machines. MM could 
detect messages with a custom tag or message parts with a particular 
MIME type (probably want to require some sort of signature as well...) 
and load up settings from the content. In the same vein, this could also 
be used as a way to provision new users in organizations that 
standardize on MM and/or to share customizations.


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