[MlMt] MailMate on one machine not syncing

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Nov 20 18:58:41 EST 2018


On 17 Nov 2018, at 15:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 16 Nov 2018, at 19:04, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> On 16 Nov 2018, at 10:10, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Ah! I'd never even heard of that feature. Following the instructions 
>> in
>> https://www.lifewire.com/control-how-mac-applications-use-app-nap-2260788
>> I've tried turning it off system-wide; I'll see if it helps, though 
>> for all I know I have
>> to restart MailMate after doing that.
>
> I don't think Apple allows it to be disabled like that any longer, but 
> I believe I've solved the problem within MailMate now. Hold down ⌥ 
> when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane 
> to get a test release.
>
Installed 6130; I'll see what happens. (I was expecting to see the 
setting in the
app options—is that only for releases prior to Mojave?)



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