[MlMt] BusyContacts and MailMate integration

[Zak McClellan]

+1 on this issue

Can’t recall when things stopped working on the BusyContacts activity 
feed.
I have no record, but I think it was when I made BC my ‘system 
default’ contact manager.  Or at least the manager used in Alfred.  
Maybe MailMate as default email?

For me there is a definitive cutoff date for email in the activity feed.

-Zak

MacBookPro 11,4 Core i7, 2.8GHz (16GB RAM)
Mid 2015 15-inch Retina
OS X 10.12.3 (16D32)

MailMate 1.9.6 (5347)
Alfred 3.3.1 [806]
BusyContacts 1.1.7

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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:52:59 -0500
> From: "Blayne Puklich" <blayne at puklich.com>
> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] BusyContacts and MailMate integration
> Message-ID: <7C4F44B5-9775-4FA0-B019-BCF2131FB753 at puklich.com>
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> Ha! Got it working on my MacBook Air running MacOS 10.11.6 and the 
> same
> versions of MailMate and BusyContacts that you’ve got, Paul. Rock!
>
> Now I need to figure out why it doesn’t work on the MacBook Pro with
> the same software versions… I’ll post back what I figure out in 
> case
> it might help someone else.
>
> On 26 Apr 2017, at 9:05, Paul Flicek wrote:
>
>> I have MailMate 1.9.6 (5347) and BusyContacts 1.1.6 on macOS 10.12.1.
>>
>> I've used BusyContacts since it was in beta and have a full license.
>> I switched from Apple Mail to MailMate after I started using BC.  It
>> worked the same on both sides of the mail transition.
>>
>>
>> On 26 Apr 2017, at 14:59, Blayne Puklich wrote:
>>
>>> It sure does help, Paul! What versions of things are you using? 
>>> I’m
>>> using MailMate 1.9.6 (5347) and BusyContacts 1.1.7 on Mac OS 
>>> 10.11.6.
>>> BusyContacts is only a trial license right now just to see if and 
>>> how
>>> this would work.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Blayne Puklich             Minneapolis, MN       PGP Key ID:
>>> 0xC52CA6C1
>>> * mailto:blayne at puklich.com
>>>          I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
>>>
>>> On 26 Apr 2017, at 8:53, Paul Flicek wrote:
>>>
>>>> It works perfectly for me. I see the messages in BusyContacts
>>>> immediately as they arrive in MailMate. I don't remember doing
>>>> anything special to make this work other than enabling indexing.
>>>>
>>>> I realize this doesn't really help with troubleshooting.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> On 26 Apr 2017, 14:46 +0100, Blayne Puklich <blayne at puklich.com>,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ahh, thanks for that. That part I think I have working;
>>>>> BusyContacts seems to be the address book that MailMate uses. At
>>>>> least it’s good enough integration for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I’m trying to do though is get BusyContacts to show email
>>>>> activity instead when I’m looking at a contact in BusyContacts.
>>>>> That’s the piece I can’t seem to get working, and I’m
>>>>> wondering if anyone else has it working well.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Blayne Puklich Minneapolis, MN PGP Key ID: 0xC52CA6C1
>>>>> * mailto:blayne at puklich.com
>>>>> I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 Apr 2017, at 8:04, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you read MM manual, it describes somewhere the shallowness of
>>>>>> the integration with BusyContacts. Unfortunately, I forget where
>>>>>> that is. I wanted to use BContacts as an external address book 
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> MM since it does not have its own (using Apple Contacts as my 
>>>>>> real
>>>>>> address book), but that failed. Basically, only AContacts are
>>>>>> properly integrated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 Apr 2017, at 2:23, Blayne Puklich wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I’ve trudged through the mailing list archives and done quite 
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> bit of Googling to try and figure out why the BusyContacts and
>>>>>>> MailMate integration doesn’t work. BusyContacts just won’t
>>>>>>> show email activity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indexing is enabled in MailMate. The Custom Location is enabled
>>>>>>> and left as the home directory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Spotlight finds emails just fine via multiple searches - name,
>>>>>>> email address, etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MailMate is the default mailer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .eml files open with MailMate.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I even logged out of iCloud and back in, just for kicks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this working for anyone else? Any other things for me to try?
>>>>>>> Thanks much in advance!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Blayne Puklich Minneapolis, MN PGP Key ID: 0xC52CA6C1
>>>>>>> * mailto:blayne at puklich.com
>>>>>>> I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.