[MlMt] installing on 2nd computer

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Fri May 13 21:26:07 EDT 2016


Frankly, I don't know.  Copying doesn't necessarily preserve the "last 
changed" time, and I don't know for sure if MailMate looks at the 
relative change times of various files.

On 13 May 2016, at 20:41, Howard Wettstein wrote:

> Is this the equivalent of simply copying the directory from one 
> computer to the other?
>
>
> On 13 May 2016, at 17:33, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure it's Library/Application Support/MailMate.
>>
>> Open a terminal window on the machine with the good MailMate setup.  
>> Then do
>> this:
>>
>> 	rsync -avH 'Library/Application Support/MailMate' 
>> othermachine.local:'Library/Application Support'
>>
>> where you replace 'othermachine' by the name of the destination 
>> computer.  If it includes any blanks, enclose it in quotes per the 
>> above.
>>
>>
>> On 13 May 2016, at 20:22, Howard Wettstein wrote:
>>
>>> Or maybe just tell me what are the files or directories to sync. 
>>> Thanks.
>>> Howie
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 13, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Steven M. Bellovin 
>>>> <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I cheated.  I exited MailMate, and rsync'd the proper directories 
>>>> over...
>>>>
>>>> On 13 May 2016, at 18:51, Howard Wettstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How do you install Mailmate on a 2nd computer (going overseas with 
>>>>> laptop) so that it’s just like on one’s main computer?
>>>>> Howie
>>>>> Thanks.
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