Freron MailMate

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  David Colebatch May 22nd, 2017 @ 07:31 PM

  I just wanted to bump this - it is still a problem for me and I have to repeat these steps each time I open MailMate (so I tend to not shutdown...)

  Any ideas on how I can remediate? Need any more information?

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  Christopher Corbettis June 20th, 2017 @ 09:05 AM

  All of your changes to MailMate should be persisted to ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist (where ~ is your home directory, more detail: Navigating files and folders).

  Nearly all Mac property lists are now stored as binary files, meaning you won’t be able to easily examine or edit the contents of a plist (just try opening com.freron.MailMate.plist in TextEdit, you’ll see a lot of garbled text). You can either use an application that can read binary plists or convert to plain text first.

  BBEdit opens binary plist files and a whole lot more, it is nagware though, so bear that in mind.

  Looking at my com.freron.MailMate.plist I can see for example this change that I made (yeah, the key name is backwards and I might lower the number of seconds too):

      <key>MmMessagesWebViewSecondsToMarkUnread</key>
      <integer>8</integer>
  

  So first thing, make your changes in MailMate, then verify that the plist is being updated with your desired changes.

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  David Colebatch June 20th, 2017 @ 06:59 PM

  Ah, thanks Christopher!

  For some reason, ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist was a directory on my system. I removed it:

  rmdir ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist

  changed an option and saw a new file created.

  I think I'm good now.

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  Christopher Corbettis June 20th, 2017 @ 07:44 PM

  You’re very welcome David!

  That was even easier (and stranger) than I imagined, I’ve not heard of such a mix up before. Maybe Benny will know more.

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  benny November 23rd, 2017 @ 08:01 AM

  • State changed from “new” to “resolved”

  Just for the record, I have no idea how that became a folder. MailMate never interacts with it directly but goes through a system call.

  Also note, that manually editing the file is not safe due to how the system caches preferences values. Always use the defaults command.

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  Christopher Corbettis November 23rd, 2017 @ 09:33 AM

  Quite right, Benny, that’s a much better way to do it:

  defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmMessagesWebViewSecondsToMarkUnread 6
  

  And to check a value with read:

  defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmMessagesWebViewSecondsToMarkUnread
  

  (Eight seconds is too long. Also, using ZSH and Zim for learning more about the command line tools is really worthwhile.)