[MlMt] Rules didn't come along with update

[Bob Koss]

Sorry Benny, it must have been just a fluke that an annoying Facebook 
message got through to my Inbox. Everything appears to be working and 
the reason I didn't see the rules is because I was looking in the wrong 
place.



On 18 Sep 2014, at 7:48, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 18 Sep 2014, at 11:30, Bob Koss wrote:
>
>> I updated MailMate yesterday and I noticed this morning that my 
>> previous rules were not applied to incoming mail. I went to look at 
>> my rules and there weren't any.
>
> That doesn't sound good. So far, I have no other reports about this, 
> but I'm of course very interested in fixing any bugs related to this.
>
>> Is there a way to recover without entering them all again?
>
> If you have a backup then you can copy this file to get your mailboxes 
> back:
>
> 	~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist
>
> You *must* quit MailMate before copying this file.
>
> If you manage to do this and the rules disappear again then let me 
> know.
>
>> Are there plans to make rules available across computers I use. 
>> Sometimes I'll enter rules on my laptop and sometimes on my desktop 
>> and it would be nice if I didn't have to do this twice. Possibly sync 
>> using Dropbox?
>
> I only have some notes on thoughts about how this could work. 
> Something like Dropbox could be used, but I think it might be better 
> to simply use IMAP for this purpose (the user could be asked to select 
> a special IMAP mailbox for MailMate settings). It's not as trivial as 
> it sounds though :-)
>
> -- 
> Benny
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