[MlMt] OK, it's not ME...

Randall Meadows mailmate at not-pc.com
Wed Mar 16 19:27:05 EDT 2022


On 16 Mar 2022, at 14:12, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2022, at 19:20, Randall Meadows wrote:
>
>> Follow-up, FWIW...upgrading to Monterey seems to have made the first two issues (menu flashing and context switching) disappear (with no change to the version of MailMate).
>
> Well, I didn't have much of an idea of those anyways. The menu flashing should only happen if triggering a menu command (and the flashing is done by Apple code). Note that ⌘+down is bound to “Next Message” though. That might be accidentally triggered.

I could reliably reproduce it by repeatedly (and fairly quickly) pressing ⌘-D, which I assigned to Delete Message.

>> The narcolepsy problem still exists, though. :(
>
> You can try catching it with this command:
>
>     sample MailMate 10 > ~/Desktop/mailmate_sample.txt

I'll cue that up to be ready next time it happens.

> I had a similar report recently. In that case, I believe it was triggered by the arrival of messages combined with a large message store, and an antivirus program scanning database index files every time the database was updated.

The large message store might be in play, but antivirus is definitely not.

Thanks, Benny, I'll send the sample if/when I catch it.


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