[MlMt] Share settings on multiple installs?

Jonathan Clark jonathan at clarksonline.me.uk
Sat Jan 11 03:47:24 EST 2014


On 10 Jan 2014, at 21:09, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2014, at 15:28, Jonathan Clark wrote:
>
>> Having tried MlMt for a month and love what it already is, and that 
>> the
>> route to even greater things is clear, I'm pleased to commit to it, 
>> So I'd
>> like to use it on my college computer as well. Is there a way of 
>> sharing
>> app settings (and account settings) over Dropbox, so I can keep the 
>> two in
>> sync?
>
> No, you can easily move all the .plist files in `~/Library/Application 
> Support/MailMate`, but there is no way to synchronize these. In 
> particular, you should never change these files manually while 
> MailMate is running.
>
> I've considered ways to synchronize certain settings using IMAP 
> itself, in particular, smart mailboxes and tags, but I haven't yet 
> tried anything in practice.

I'll copy the .plist files manually, then. Thanks for a clear answer. I 
know the implementation of such a thing would be difficult. One newish 
app that has added this feature is Alfred, and having declared which one 
is the 'master', sync of settings works nicely.

Regards,

-- Jonathan
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