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Mahogany can automatically save a subset of its configuration settings in a
mailbox at program exit and automatically retrieve that information the next
time it is started up. This option becomes useful if you are using the program
from different systems, e.g. if sometimes from the office and some other times
from home over a dialup link. In this case, you can save some settings in a
special IMAP mailbox and tell the program to use this for some of the settings.
Like that, you can share the program settings no matter from where you run Mahogany
and you do not need to manually adjust both configurations.
To use this option, first create a mailbox on an IMAP server. Do not use a POP3
server, as the program cannot store information via POP3, IMAP is required for
this to work. Then, activate the ``Sync options with remote server'' setting
and choose which settings you wish to share. Currently supported are:
- Sync Filter Rules: This keeps the global list of all filter rules synchronised
via the IMAP mailbox. Very useful if you want to use the same set of filter
rules no matter where you run Mahogany.
- Sync Identities: This keeps the list of available identity settings
synchronised. Be careful: some things such as server settings might cause problems
if they are used on a machine with different network settings.
- Sync part of the folder tree: This allows you to synchronise a complete
sub-tree of the mailbox/folder tree. Activate this and pick a group of folders
from the tree (Click on the [>>] button to choose one.)
and this tree of folders will be available no matter from where you run Mahogany.
Note: this only makes sense if the folder group contains networked folders which
are accessible from both machines. It synchronises configuration information,
not folder contents. So you cannot access a mailbox file residing on one machine
via this mechanism, but you can share configuration entries for remote mailboxes,
such as IMAP, POP3 or newsgroups.
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2001-04-19