Now you’re finished in the terminal app and in both Folder windows, all of which you can close if you want. You understand that, in the following instructions, folder:Īt the prompts, enter your preside.io account user name and password.I grant you that the ones I’ve substituted herein are no walk in the park, either but, in my view, the results are worth it.) The procedure Assumptions It’s this latter group for whom I think the original instructions may leave too much on the proverbial cutting-room floor. (While many MailMate users are avowed general-level techies and probably scoff at my concerns, some are strictly email power users rather than overall power users. So allow me to give you my own version of the instructions for making this work with MailMate. The MailMate-related instructions in the PresideNotify README tell you what you need to know but, in my moderately humble opinion, are unnecessarily cryptic while also leaving out a couple of “nice-to-have” items.
#MAILMATE PROMPT ON TOP REPLY MAC#
In this scenario, you keep MailMate running all the time on your Mac - if you’re a MailMate user, I bet you do that anyway - and set each of your email accounts to ping Preside, via a command within a PresideNotify MailMate bundle, whenever the account gets a new email. In that case, we don’t do anything with the information other than to pass it through to your device.
passes through our servers if you choose to do so. No account information is stored on our servers, and email information. The privacy implications are minimal with this mechanism. When an email arrives, that computer can communicate with our servers to send the notification to your device. . . Use this option if you’d like to monitor your Inbox on your own desktop computer or server.
Here’s some of what Preside’s built-in documentation says of private remote sync in general: Of these three choices, the MailMate-specific one is what I’ll be describing - and amending - in this post.
#MAILMATE PROMPT ON TOP REPLY FREE#
Private remote sync in Preside, which requires a free preside.io account 2, involves your using the PresideNotify tools in one of these three setups: Of the five synchronization methods Preside does offer, private remote sync is the only one that’s relevant to the neat trick I’ll be explaining shortly so let’s talk about it. To its great credit, Preside doesn’t work that way.
Of course, this means those vendors have to have varying degrees of access to your email accounts, which many consider a violation of their privacy. Well, how often an email app “checks” your email accounts’ servers is what determines how snappily it can notify you of new emails.Īs you can imagine, constantly syncing with the servers could be a battery-draining experience, so many third-party mobile email apps provide quick notifications by passively “listening” for “calls” from their respective vendors’ servers, which are constantly “watching” one’s email accounts for new arrivals. Consider this analogy from snail mail: if you go outside to check your home’s mailbox only once a day, that’s how often you’ll learn whether you have any mail in the box. Methods, but not madnessįirst, understand that Preside’s notification behavior, as is true for any email app, is based on which synchronization method it’s using. if you have both MailMate and Preside and if you want not only notifications but nearly instantaneous notifications in Preside, read on. Still, each method has its drawbacks but, fortunately, some tweaking will optimize what I consider to be the best of these methods. Waters also understands that some people still really need (or, in my case, want) notifications as soon as possible and, so, he’s provided some tools to make Preside handle notifications more as other email apps do. Preside’s developer, Rich Waters, believes email notifications impair one’s productivity. This is intended as a feature, not a bug. In my post, “ Battle of the iOS email heavyweights,” I noted that the only thing that rubbed me the wrong way about the otherwise excellent (and, indeed, amazing) Preside was its not-so-great handling of notifications. This is for all you power users who wield both the MailMate Mac email app and Preside iOS email app.
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