[MlMt] 5969?

[Steve Mayer]

Maybe the MailMate .plist files could be saved off (into source 
control??) after you’ve got it working so that recovery for these 
types of situations is shorter?

Steve Mayer
smayer69 at me.com

On 14 Jul 2023, at 9:39, Erik Mueller-Harder wrote:

> I love the “Standard Single Column” for the correspondence pane. 
> Very nice!
>
> So I took r5970 for a spin.  Thrilled by the new *Standard Single 
> Column*, as I said, especially for the correspondence pane.  And 
> perhaps I’m imagining things, but it seems like navigation is a 
> smidge faster, too.
>
> I spent a bunch of time tweaking my layout for the *Correspondence* 
> view and saved the new column arrangement as default.  I then went to 
> have a cup of coffee.
>
> When I came back, r5970 had crashed (Benny, logs were automatically 
> sent a few minutes ago).
>
> When I relaunched,
>  • I was no longer in *Correspondence* view; MM had reverted to 
> *Three Panes*.
>  • All of my column adjustments were lost (see “Forgetful Columns 
> <https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672-mailmate/tickets/3186-forgetful-columns#ticket-3186-1> 
> ”).
> When I re-entered *Correspondence*, I discovered:
>  • The *Correspondence* pane had also reverted its settings.
> Somehow, I’d hoped that the massive rewrite would’ve solved the 
> Forgetful Columns problem, but I guess not.
>
> Honestly, I miss using MailMate as my day-to-day email client — but 
> I can’t afford to spend ten or fifteen minutes every two or three 
> days to retrain it to work the way I want.  (Yes, it does usually take 
> that long:  MM sets itself to a set of columns that is wrong in almost 
> every way — including the infernal “Outline Column,” which 
> resets to “From,” which means I can’t delete the “From” 
> column until after I’ve changed the “Outline Column” to 
> something else.  I like to use a “Correspondents” column, but that 
> makes “From” redundant.)
>
> ---
>
> Icing on the cake:  we’ve had bad flooding here in Vermont 
> <https://vtdigger.org/2023-july-flooding/> earlier this week, and the 
> internet was very flakey.  Over and over again, my wife, my child, and 
> I all had to remember to keep telling MailMate to “Take Fastmail 
> Online” and “Take iCloud Online” and “Take Gmail Online.”  
> *Please*, can’t the default be that MailMate will just poll every 
> minute or two and *automatically* bring it back online?  Pretty 
> please?

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