[MlMt] Undoing an erroneous mailbox type designation

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sun Mar 4 19:06:48 EST 2018


On 4 Mar 2018, at 15:10, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2018, at 18:15, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> Somehow -- and how isn't clear to me -- a mailbox was erroneously 
>> typed as "Sent Messages". I've unchecked that, but I can't get the 
>> columns to restore to normal. I've tried unchecking 'To', for 
>> example, and quitting and restarting MM, but it's still there. Any 
>> way to fix it? Or should I create a new mailbox, copy, and 
>> delete/rename?
>
> Did you try “View ▸ Columns ▸ Restore Default Columns”? It 
> might not work since the whole column-state saving code is 
> buggy/unreliable (as I've mentioned before on this list).

Revert to default columns did the trick; thanks!
>
> Also check that “Mailbox ▸ Mailbox Type” is not “Sent 
> Messages” since this is what triggers MailMate to use a different 
> set of columns.

It was not checked.

         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb




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