bishless » imap http://www.bishless.com/blog Daniel Bishop's periodic ramblings Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:55:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Launch Postbox’s Profile Manager on a mac http://www.bishless.com/blog/2009/04/02/launch-postboxs-profile-manager-on-a-mac/ http://www.bishless.com/blog/2009/04/02/launch-postboxs-profile-manager-on-a-mac/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:36:14 +0000 bish http://www.bishless.com/blog/?p=237 Continue reading →]]> I’ve used Firefox and Thunderbird for a long time on the PC/Linux sides of the fence(s). Recently, I discovered Postbox at work and it’s been serving my IMAP client needs very well.

I decided to install it on my macbook the other day and configured it for my IMAP account at work. When I wanted to create another profile for my personal Gmail account, I was stumped as to how to invoke Postbox’s Profile Manager. Surely it had one. It’s based on Thunderbird! I’m sure I could guess at the shortcut syntax for the PC, but on the mac, I felt pretty noobish.

So, after some hunting, I found some instructions for starting Thunderbird’s profile manager on a mac… In a terminal window, type the following:

/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -p &

Apparently, the “&” at the end of that line just tells Terminal to quit after launching the Profile Manager.

So, I tried the following for Postbox:

/Applications/Postbox.app/Contents/MacOS/postbox-bin -p &

It worked perfectly!

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