[MlMt] Alias mailing list

[Glenn Parker]

On 9 Dec 2020, at 6:26, aisrael wrote:

> The answer to my question is probably obvious, but I could not find it 
> in the forum archives :
>
> Can I create an alias for a mailing list directly in Mailmate, or 
> should I do it in the Contacts (which I don’t use normally), or on 
> the server?

It’s a reasonable question because many other email clients provide 
their own integrated address books. MailMate simulates some of this by 
indexing the email addresses from (a subset of) existing email messages, 
but MailMate does not have its own address book. That means MailMate 
only knows about addresses in the *messages* it has already seen, and 
address groups are not readily captured that way.

To complete the functionality, MailMate uses the Contacts application 
and its underlying database. You can see this in the MailMate 
Preferences under the Composer tab which offers three options for 
Auto-Completion, including “Contacts”.

This is a limitation since, like you and many others, I don’t rely on 
the Mac’s Contacts application (or iCloud) to maintain my address 
book. Personally, I use the Google Contacts system, but obviously there 
are many options. Google Contacts supports the CardDAV protocol, and 
LDAP servers are common, but MailMate does not integrate directly with 
either of these yet.

The solution I have settled on for now is a third party app called 
“Contacts Sync for Google Gmail” that supports one-way and full 
duplex synchronization between Google Contacts, the local Mac Contacts 
app (or iCloud Contacts).

Glenn P. Parker
glenn.parker at comcast.net
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