[MlMt] Updating account information made MailMate (re)download *all* email

[Sherif Soliman]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 06:15 PM, Sherif Soliman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 05:09 PM, Sherif Soliman wrote:
> > This happened on the MailMate BETA, but I don't know if it's limited to 
> > it or can happen in the stable version.
> > 
> > I use FastMail and they recently made some security upgrades[1], which 
> > include two factor authentication (2FA), app-specific passwords, and new 
> > imap and smtp server names.
> > 
> > [1]: 
> > https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/07/25/two-step-verification-and-other-new-security-features/
> > 
> > Once you enable 2FA on FastMail, you *have* to generate app-specific 
> > passwords. I generated a new password for MailMate to use, and went to 
> > update the account information by right clicking on it in the list of 
> > sources.
> > 
> > I put in the new password and changed the server names from the old 
> > `mail.messagingengine.com` to `<protocol>.fastmail.com`.
> > 
> > What happened afterwards is that MailMate re-downloaded my entire email 
> > content from FastMail. I know because I use Little Snitch and I could 
> > see that MailMate used the same amount of bandwidth down as my used 
> > space on FastMail.
> > 
> > It also reset some of the mailboxes that have "types". For example, I 
> > had to re-tell MailMate which folder to use for Sent Messages, and which 
> > one to use for Junk, and Trash.
> > 
> > I don't know if that's expected behaviour or not. It could be a really 
> > expensive download for some people (I have the speed and bandwidth to 
> > spare, so I'm good).
> > 
> > If it is unexpected but intended, is there a way to make it not happen?
> > 
> > If it is unavoidable for whatever reason, then this is a PSA to people 
> > that this could happen, so if you plan on making changes to server names 
> > and can wait for a time when you don't need your network or have free 
> > bandwidth, you should do that.
> > 
> 
> (apologies for the duplicate email - not sure what happened)
> 
> And now MailMate is extremely sluggish in starting up, and will often freeze on startup. The duplicate message happened as it struggled with this cycle.
> 

Finally, try as I might to stop it from doing so, MailMate sends my sent mail to "Sent-Items-1" instead of the Sent folder I instruct it to use.

I will likely start fresh tonight.

Sherif