[MlMt] Alias mailing list

[Charlie Clark]

On 9 Dec 2020, at 16:48, Glenn Parker wrote:

> 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).

I'm not sure why you need another app: Contacts is linked with my Google 
account (I don't use G-mail, just the address book and the calendar) 
along with an Exchange server and MailMate can read them both.

Charlie

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