[MlMt] Fwd: Running one mail account completely separate from others

[Antonio Leding]

Thought a little more and maybe instead of copying initially, we could 
just use symlinks — need to still work out data protection along the 
way but symlinks might make app launch faster…

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> From: Antonio Leding <tech at leding.net>
> To: MailMate Users <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] Running one mail account completely separate from 
> others
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:56:17 +0000
>
> The only way I can see making this happen would be to create a library 
> of each MM setup — one for each set of accounts — that would 
> contain all necessary MM information such as config items, mail store, 
> etc.  Then, when it comes time to run MM, you would first need to 
> “load” the appropriate library into the location MM is expecting 
> to find its application stuff — i.e. ~/Library/Application 
> Support/MailMate.
>
> So for example, you might have this as the libraries:
>
> * ~/mm_libs/current/account-set_1/
> * ~/mm_libs/current/account-set_2/
> * ~/mm_libs/backups/
>
> Then, at MM runtime, instead of executing MM directly, you would 
> instead run some script or Automator event that does something like:
>
> **To run set #1:**
>
> * cp ~/mm_libs/current/* ~/mm_libs/backups/[ RUN_TIMECODE ]/   <<< 
> done before any data move for backup purposes; TIMECODE = 
> YYMMDD_HHMMSS
> * cp ~/mm_libs/account-set_1/ ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate
> * Exec Mailmate
>
> **To run set #2:**
>
> * cp ~/mm_libs/current/* ~/mm_libs/backups/[ RUN_TIMECODE ]/   <<< 
> done before any data move for backup purposes; TIMECODE = 
> YYMMDD_HHMMSS
> * cp ~/mm_libs/account-set_1/ ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate
> * Exec Mailmate
>
> Of course, you would probably want to add some cleanup at the end of 
> the script or Automator event that would copy the set of files back to 
> the library after closing MM.  I would also strongly suggest that the 
> initial backup event be checked, double-checked, and triple-checked to 
> ensure you always have a “last known good” copy of data.  And once 
> data is copied to the BU location, it remains inviolate and never used 
> directly.
>
> This is all just some back of the napkin thoughts - not tried any of 
> this.  I did do something many years back in Win2k days with VPN setup 
> and network assignments but the idea is the same.  I also think most 
> could be accomplished using Automator and then maybe a set of simple 
> shell scripts. Not sure of your scripting expertise but definitely 
> worth a try if you’re up for it.
>
> Good luck…
>
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>
>
>
> On 22 Dec 2020, at 8:26, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> On 22 Dec 2020, at 8:58, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>>
>>> I have a number of email accounts but I would like to run one 
>>> account completely separate from other account, like "this is the 
>>> only account currently visible for MailMate". This to avoid some 
>>> mistakes that could have some undesirable consequences. I don't mind 
>>> quitting MailMate switching from one configuration (with all email 
>>> accounts except one) to another (with only one account), in fact 
>>> this would be perfect for me.
>>>
>>> I assume this isn't possible in an easy way, but in case I'm wrong I 
>>> would like to know how to do it. My current solution is simply to 
>>> use Mail for that account ... but if I could use MailMate for all of 
>>> them, great.
>>>
>>
>> Depending on your needs and mail load, you might find it easiest
>> to use a different application for the second account—Mail.app,
>> etc. But that only works well when the secondary account has much
>> less traffic, little enough that MailMate's advanced feature aren't 
>> as
>> important.
>>
>>
>>         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
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