[MlMt] Share MailMate between user accounts – app damaged for all but one user

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Tue Jan 10 10:44:33 EST 2017


On 6 Jan 2017, at 14:21, Anders Thoresson wrote:

> I’m setting up a new MacBook Air for my family. I’ve installed 
> MailMate in the shared application folder and set it up for the first 
> family member.
>
> But when I try to do it for the second person, logging into her 
> account, MacOS’ Finder claims that MailMate is damaged and needs to 
> be downloaded once again. If I switch back to the account where I 
> first set up MailMate, it still works.
>
> Two questions, obviously:
>
> - What’s going on?

MailMate has an (old) issue where the Software Update mechanism doesn't 
work well with multiple accounts. I'm guessing this is what happened 
here.

> - How do I solve the problem?

I believe this can do it (until you update again):

	chmod -R go+rX /Applications/MailMate.app

-- 
Benny
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