[MlMt] Syncing settings between machines?

[Nicholas Vahalik]

> Rules that take actions on messages are especially problematic to have 
> on more than one machine. If both machines are on and watching the 
> same IMAP account(s) with the same Smart Mailboxes using the same 
> rules, you can get race conditions.

Ah. I could see the issue with this. I don’t use this feature. My 
Smart Mailboxes are filter/visibility only.

> Yes, although you may not like it and I don't recommend it. You must 
> have the same IMAP accounts configured on both machines.
>
> 1. Quit MM on both machines
> 2. Copy all /Users/dad/Library/ApplicationSupport/MailMate/*.plist 
> files from the machine whose config you want to keep to the other 
> machine.
> 3. Repeat every time you want to switch machines.
>
> Simple, yes?

Perfect.

On 2 Feb 2021, at 22:05, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2 Feb 2021, at 21:43, Nicholas Vahalik wrote:
>
>> Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere.
>
> It has been discussed here before. Here are two of the times that it 
> has come up:
>
> https://mailmate.freron.narkive.com/C29rlbuH/mlmt-sync-mailmate-settings
> https://mailmate.freron.narkive.com/14k120v0/mlmt-syncing-mailboxes#post4
>
> There is also a long-standing ticket: 
> https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/430
>
>> I’d really like to be able to sync up my Smart Mailbox 
>> configuration between machines. This is especially painful when the 
>> Smart Mailbox rules can take several minutes to build.
>
> Rules that take actions on messages are especially problematic to have 
> on more than one machine. If both machines are on and watching the 
> same IMAP account(s) with the same Smart Mailboxes using the same 
> rules, you can get race conditions.
>
> I have a chronic problem of IMAP sessions going into an infinite loop 
> which may be caused by this but which is quite hard to diagnose in 
> depth because of the volume of logs produced. See 
> https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672-mailmate/tickets/1491 
> for details.
>
>> Is there a simple way to keep that configuration in sync between 
>> machines?
>
> Yes, although you may not like it and I don't recommend it. You must 
> have the same IMAP accounts configured on both machines.
>
> 1. Quit MM on both machines
> 2. Copy all /Users/dad/Library/ApplicationSupport/MailMate/*.plist 
> files from the machine whose config you want to keep to the other 
> machine.
> 3. Repeat every time you want to switch machines.
>
> Simple, yes?
>
>> A shell-script ssh/scp/rsync setup would be OK as well.
>
> The above steps should be fairly simple to turn into a shell script, 
> given mutual trust between the 2 machines.
>
> If you do this, it is best to only ever have MM up on one of the 
> machines.
>
> An alternative approach (which I use) is to do the above steps once, 
> and then remove all rules from all mailboxes (including both "Smart" 
> and "Source" mailboxes) on the machine that is more frequently 
> offline. I did this to avoid races and so I can leave the desktop 
> instance running all of the time, doing all of the automation (e.g. 
> rules that move new messages to the appropriate mailbox as they 
> arrive.)
>
> -- 
> Bill Cole
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