[MlMt] MailMate on one machine not syncing

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 15 Nov 2018, at 16:29, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On my desktop (an iMac running Mojave and up-to-date MailMate 2.0), it 
> often doesn't seem to wake up and sync. The machine is not sleeping; 
> not only have I verified that in Settings, I've used another machine 
> to monitor packets coming out from it. (What I see, of course, are 
> primarily broadcasts.) This is quite annoying because it's also my 
> SpamSieve machine. It's not filtering my inbox, except for a few times 
> a day, nor is it looking at the remote good and bad mailboxes. It was 
> never great at sync, but it's gotten much worse. I don't know if it's 
> the Mojave update or the fact that my primary mail server was down for 
> a few weeks until I could bring up a Linux box to replace my 
> superannuated Mac Mini. But that happened more than a week ago and the 
> new mail server is working fine.
>
> Any thoughts? (I have some of the mailboxes with the synchronization 
> schedule set to "connected"; it hasn't helped.)

I think it is likely to be related to the so-called app nap feature in 
macOS. I'm not sure whether or not it got “worse” on Mojave, but 
I've got some notes on what I need to change in MailMate to (possibly) 
avoid this problem. I'll note your address for testing such changes.

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Benny
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